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"Small is Beautiful is a wonderful statement which will hopefully be followed by more from Schumacher, as well as from others who find that his departure into 'economics as if people mattered' makes the kind of common sense that could help the survival of life on earth become at least a decent possibility." -Liberation
"I had never heard of E. F. Schumacher before reading this book. After reading it I am ready to nominate him for the Nobel Prize in economics .... Schumacher [is] an eminently practical, sensible and eloquent chap, versant in the subtleties of large-scale business management, yet equally in touch with the down-to-earth realities of a simple Indian village. His book is a most unusual economic treatise, enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology."
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Small Is Beautiful, 25th Anniversary Edition: Economics As If People Mattered: 25 Years Later . . . With Commentaries
June 15, 2000, Hartley and Marks Publishers
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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: A study of economics as if people mattered
1975, Abacus
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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
1974, Abacus, Harper & Row
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Small is beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered
1973, Blond and Briggs
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1973, Harper & Row
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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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