Small is beautiful : economics as if people mattered

By:

Schumacher, Ernest Friedrich

Contributor(s):

McKibben, Bill (Foreword)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Blond and Briggs 2010Description: xvi, 324pISBN:

9780061997761 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

339.5 SCH

Summary: “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 McKibben’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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Economics	339.5 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004174

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“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 McKibben’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.

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