Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered, Paperback
Descriere
""Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom."" --Newsweek One the 100 most influential books published since World War II --The Times Literary Supplement Hailed as an ""eco-bible"" by Time magazine, E. F. Schumacher's riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during the 1973 energy crisis. A landmark statement against ""bigger is better"" industrialism, Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty, Paul Hawken's Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yunis's Banker to the Poor, and Bill Mc Kibben's Deep Economy. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.
Despre autor
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher a fost un statistician și economist britanic, născut în Germania, cunoscut în special pentru propunerile sale privind tehnologiile la scară umană, descentralizate și adecvate. A îndeplinit funcția de consilier economic principal al Consiliului Național Britanic al Cărbunelui din 1950 până în 1970, iar în 1966 a fondat Grupul pentru Dezvoltarea Tehnologiilor Intermediare.