Small is Still BeautifulE.F. Schumacher argued that our current pursuit of profit and progress which promotes giant organizations has resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. He proposed a system of intermediate technology, based on smaller working units and regional workplaces, utilizing local resources. This follow-up book by his daughter takes up the themes of economic and political "smallness" for the new millennium. It offers an alternative to global consumerism. |
Contents
Beginnings and Ends | 3 |
Malignant Growth | 9 |
Expand and Die | 23 |
Copyright | |
19 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accelerated Alexander Solzhenitsyn antibiotics areas become believed brewing Britain called CAMRA cent centre century cities co-op Common Agricultural Policy companies consumers conventional economics cost countries debt demand democracy developing world E.F. Schumacher earth economic growth economies of scale economists EcoTech environment environmental Europe European Union farmers free trade future G.K. Chesterton genetically modified giantism global GM crops GM foods GM ingredients greed human Ibid increase industry Joseph Pearce labour land living London macrophilia maize Mansholt material meta-economic million modern world multinational nature organic farming organic food ownership Paul Ormerod pesticide philosophy plants politics of scale population practical problems production profits progress question Quoted in Schumacher reality rich rural Schumacher's Scott Bader Commonwealth small brewers small businesses Small Is Beautiful social society Soil Association Solzhenitsyn sustainable theory things third world tion traditional Treehouse truth United wisdom