Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered [Paperback]

Small Is Beautifulis Oxford-trained economist E. F. Schumacher’s classic call for the end of excessive consumption. Schumacher inspired such movements as “Buy Locally” and “Fair Trade,” while voicing strong opposition to “casino capitalism” and wasteful corporate behemoths. Named one of theTimes Literary Supplement’s100 Most Influential Books Since World War II,Small Is Beautifulpresents eminently logical arguments for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.

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.An eco-bibleSmall Is Beautifulchanged the way many people think about bigness and its human costs.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.