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A book of heart and hope and downright common sense about the future. --Daily Mail
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A remarkable classic study of world economies, reissued to celebrate the centenary of E F Schumachers birth.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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This book should be required reading in schools - it is that good. Insightful, clear and to the point, the author's analysis of the issues is as relevant today as it was when he wrote it.
His basic premise is that fossil fuels are capital , and yet we consume it like it is a revenue stream, and this is ultimately destructive. Instead we should spend our capital resources in order to create the infrastructure for sustainability.
This book inspired the organic movement, and is the intellectual basis of so much of environmentalism. We ignore its lessons at our peril.
His basic premise is that fossil fuels are capital , and yet we consume it like it is a revenue stream, and this is ultimately destructive. Instead we should spend our capital resources in order to create the infrastructure for sustainability.
This book inspired the organic movement, and is the intellectual basis of so much of environmentalism. We ignore its lessons at our peril.
66 of 68 people found the following review helpful
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The point of this book is to assault what is meant by progress and try and understand what has gone wrong when we live in almost obscene wealth while large parts of the planet barely get by. This book is a call to arms, to understand things we all seem to have forgotten: what is value? what actually matters in life? should the means always justify the ends? what is work for? and who put all these economists in charge? I doubt most readers will agree with everything, but the writing is plain, unfussy and easy to read and still very persuasive. Schumacher appeals to uncommon sense: our feeling of how the world should be. And, unlike the other armchair-revolutionaries, he has actually tried to make it happen. To cap it all, Buddhist economics is the most beautful idea i've come across in ages. Highly recommended.
35 of 38 people found the following review helpful
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I realized recently that this book has shaped my thinking for all the years ( more than 30) since I have read it, and I measure nearly all attempts at development in its light. (Sadly, not much measures up.) Somehow, it has not become obvious to all that exporting the high-cost- in so many ways- technology and lifestyle of the West is not going to work, but when it does become obvious, it will be the wisdom of this book that will be the guide. Its beauty lies in that it doesn't suggest particular solutions, but the principles to guide the strategies. Now that I have gotten older, and am accumulating some means to help, it will be projects of the recommended intermediate technology, that will the head the list of ideas I support. Read the book and be inspired.
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Everything was what I expected, thank you very much, the book was very good condition and delivery was fast, exactly what I expected when I ordered the book.
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Sadness on late reflection
Returning to this extremely influencial book after nearly 40 years I was utterly dismayed to be reminded that Fritz was first and foremeost an economist and secondly what little... Read more
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Economics for 21st century
My book's arrival was very timely. I'd just seen yet another travesty of European economics at its best on BBC news. Read more
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I found this book very interesting and formative. It certaintly makes one think of the material things that people become dependent on and how time and life can easily become less... Read more
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A prophet speaks...
Published back in 1973 this book will seem to some readers the very embodiment of a hippy -style , green tinged , mixed market style of economic thinking. Read more
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LIFE CHANGING
A friend recommended this book to me way back in the 70s sadly I never read it then but had I done so I would most certainly kept on the path that I was following at that time. Read more
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Insightful and still relevant
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