‘Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered’ (1973) – ‘A Book in Five Minutes’, no.24
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2023-01-12

Ramblinactivist’s Videos, 2023/2, 12th January 2023.

“We might remind ourselves that to calculate the cost of survival is perverse.”

Some books are so well observed, so prescient, that even their supporters are seemingly overwhelmed by their material implications, and turn away from the truths they annunciate: ‘Small is Beautiful’ is such an example.

E.F. Schumacher has so much to contribute to the ecological debate today – but which has seemingly been forgotten over the last fifty years. Planning my book reviews for this year, it became obvious that this had to be the first. 

For the referenced text and an audio podcast of this post, goto:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/blog/reviews/024/index.shtml

You can find more of these reviews in ‘A Book in Five Minutes’ here:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/blog/reviews/index.shtml

Finally, it would really help to promote this work if you could follow, subscribe, or like my social media presence – which can be accessed from the link above. In today’s digital analytics popularity contest, all that button-pressing means something in this messed-up world.

Chapters:
00:00 Opening titles.
00:32 Book review.
06:25 After-thoughts.
12:25 Closing credits.

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