Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
“Embracing what Schumacher stood for--above all the idea of sensible scale--is the task for our time.Small is Beautifulcould 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)“Small Is Beautifulchanged the way many people think about bigness and its human costs.” (New York Times)“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)