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Enormously broad in scope, pithily threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology. -- The New Republic

Embracing what Schumacher stood for--above all the idea of sensible scale--is the task for our time. Small is Beautiful could not be more relevant. It was first published in 1973, but it was written for our time. --Bill McKibben, from the Foreword

Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom. . . . Schumacher believes economists need a new set of values, to obtain maximum well-being with minimum consumption. --Newsweek

Embracing what Schumacher stood for--above all the idea of sensible scale--is the task for our time. Small is Beautiful could not be more relevant. It was first published in 1973, but it was written for our time. -- Bill McKibben, from the Foreword An eco-bible. -- Time magazine Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom. Economists, Schumacher says, have established material growth as the most important measure of social progress. . . . Schumacher believes economists need a new set of values . . . to obtain maximum well-being with minimum consumption. -- Newsweek Small Is Beautiful changed the way many people think about bigness and its human costs. -- New York Times Schumacher articulated truths that a funamentally true regardless of time, culture, or prevailing economic system . . . Small Is Beautiful is and always has been one of those rare books--a book that can inform a lifetime. -- Paul Hawken, author of Natural Capitalism

Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom. . . . Schumacher believes economists need a new set of values, to obtain maximum well-being with minimum consumption. --Newsweek An eco-bible --Time magazine Small Is Beautiful changed the way many people think about bigness and its human costs. --New York Times Embracing what Schumacher stood for--above all the idea of sensible scale--is the task for our time. Small is Beautiful could not be more relevant. It was first published in 1973, but it was written for our time. --Bill McKibben, from the Foreword

<i>Small Is Beautiful</i> changed the way many people think about bigness and its human costs. --New York Times

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"Born in Germany, Dr. E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977) fled to England after the rise of Nazism and, with the help of John Maynard Keynes, taught economics at Oxford University. He is the author of Small Is Beautiful, the book that ""changed the way many people think about bigness and its human cost"" (New York Times)."

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