Small is beautiful

a study of economics as if people mattered

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E. F. Schumacher
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Small is beautiful

a study of economics as if people mattered

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Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher. The title "Small Is Beautiful" came from a principle espoused by Schumacher’s teacher Leopold Kohr (1909–1994) advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a superior alternative to the mainstream ethos of "bigger is better".

Overlapping environmental, social, and economic forces such as the 1973 energy crisis and popularisation of the concept of globalisation helped bring Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful critiques of mainstream economics to a wider audience during the 1970s. In 1995 The Times Literary Supplement ranked Small Is Beautiful among the 100 most influential books published since World War II. A further edition with commentaries was published in 1999.

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Abacus
Language
English
Pages
255

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Cover of: Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered
Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With Commentaries
June 15, 2000, Hartley and Marks Publishers
Paperback in English - Subsequent edition
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Small is beautiful: une société à la mesure de l'homme
1978, Contretemps, Seuil
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Small is beautiful: economics as if people mattered
1975, Perennial Library
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Small is beautiful: A study of economics as if people mattered
1975, Abacus
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Cover of: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
1975, Perennial Library
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Cover of: Small is beautiful
Small is beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered
1974, Abacus, Harper & Row
in English
Cover of: Small is beautiful
Cover of: Small is beautiful
Small is beautiful: economics as if people mattered
1973, Harper & Row
in English
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Small is beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered
1973, Blond and Briggs
in English
Cover of: Small is beautiful
Small is beautiful: economics as if people mattered
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3

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Sphere books

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HB171 .S384 1974

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255 p.
Number of pages
255

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OL21087066M
ISBN 10
0349131376
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3257
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ONE OF THE MOST fateful errors of our age is the belief that "the problem of production" has been solved.
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