Small Is Beautiful
1973 book by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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[1] (1909–1994) advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a superior alternative to the mainstream ethos of "bigger is better".
Author | Ernst Friedrich Schumacher |
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Publisher | Blond & Briggs (1973–2010), HarperCollins (2010–present) |
Publication date | 1973 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 288 pages |
ISBN | 978-0-06-091630-5 |
OCLC | 19514463 |
330.1 20 | |
LC Class | HB171 .S384 1989 |
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.[2] A further edition with commentaries was published in 1999.[3]
Honoring the 50th anniversary of Small is Beautiful in 2023, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics commissioned an updated study guide from British author and Journalist David Boyle.[4]