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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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Blond and Briggs
Language
English
Pages
288

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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
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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
1975, Perennial Library
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Small is beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered
1973, Blond and Briggs
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Small is beautiful: economics as if people mattered
1973, Harper & Row
in English
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Includes bibliographical references.

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London

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Dewey Decimal Class
330
Library of Congress
HB171 .S384 1973b

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Pagination
288 p.
Number of pages
288

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Open Library
OL5470498M
Internet Archive
smallisbeautiful0000schu_p5o6
ISBN 10
085634012X
LCCN
73173564
OCLC/WorldCat
731591
Library Thing
3257
Goodreads
1380592

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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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