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"A book of heart and hope and downright common sense about the future."
—Peter Lewis, Daily Mail
—Peter Lewis, Daily Mail
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Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of world economies. This remarkable book is as relevant today and its themes as pertinent and thought-provoking as when it was first published thirty years ago.
Small is Beautiful looks at the economic structure of the Western world in a revolutionary way. Schumacher maintains that Man's current pursuit of profit and progress, which promotes giant organisations and increased specialisation, has in fact resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. Schumacher challenges the doctrine of economic, technological and scientific specialisation and proposes a system of Intermediate
Technology, based on smaller working units, communal ownership and regional workplaces utilising local labour and resources.
Small is Beautiful looks at the economic structure of the Western world in a revolutionary way. Schumacher maintains that Man's current pursuit of profit and progress, which promotes giant organisations and increased specialisation, has in fact resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. Schumacher challenges the doctrine of economic, technological and scientific specialisation and proposes a system of Intermediate
Technology, based on smaller working units, communal ownership and regional workplaces utilising local labour and resources.
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To make it simple: This book questions the the basic pre-assumptions of our economy.
The capitalist system as we are employing it is generally accepted to be perfect and flawless - yet Schumacher manages to dismask this apparent perfection with ease and what I like about this book especially is that he doesn't just complain but he also makes suggestions for a better way! He doesn't want Communism or socialism, he just pleads for a way of conducting capitalism that is not purely based on greed and neverending expansion.
Honestly, having read this book I am not suprised anymore that a financial crisis of this extent was possible to come to suddenly. If everybody read this book, we can probably avoid the next severe financial crisis and save our planet along the way.
The only downturn to this book is Schumachers assumption (which seemed probable at the time) that all petroleum was bound to run out by 1990 or something. But in the foreword this is already dealt with and it doesn't affect the rest of his theroretical structure, which appears so much more logical and sound than the system we are currently living in.
The capitalist system as we are employing it is generally accepted to be perfect and flawless - yet Schumacher manages to dismask this apparent perfection with ease and what I like about this book especially is that he doesn't just complain but he also makes suggestions for a better way! He doesn't want Communism or socialism, he just pleads for a way of conducting capitalism that is not purely based on greed and neverending expansion.
Honestly, having read this book I am not suprised anymore that a financial crisis of this extent was possible to come to suddenly. If everybody read this book, we can probably avoid the next severe financial crisis and save our planet along the way.
The only downturn to this book is Schumachers assumption (which seemed probable at the time) that all petroleum was bound to run out by 1990 or something. But in the foreword this is already dealt with and it doesn't affect the rest of his theroretical structure, which appears so much more logical and sound than the system we are currently living in.
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Bought this book a while ago and read it over the course of several months. Although it's quite a few years old, nothing of the topics it discusses have changed all that much. All the modern 'vocabulary' of the sustainability discourse haven't been defined when this book has been written, but it contains all the necessary critique and introduces a lot of itneresting concepts on what needs to be thought about. Also very accessible read and non-specialist style. The underlying vision of an "economy as if people mattered" is actually quite radical and thought provoking!
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memo for the future
26. April 2012
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very important contribution and forecast to the discussion on economic growth right now in years 2thousand after the very bad impact of financial products over the present human behavior
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
A PROPOSAL FOR TURNING ECONOMICS AWAY FROM MASS PRODUCTION
6. März 2012
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Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher (1911-1977) was an English economist best known for his proposals for decentralized and appropriate technologies. This 1973 book was judged by The Times Literary Supplement as among the 100 most influential books published since World War II. Schumacher also wrote A Guide for the Perplexed.
He begins by saying that it is an "absurd and suicidal error to believe... that the problem of production has been solved." (Pg. 15) Our current methods of production "are already eating into the very substance of industrial man... The substance of man cannot measured by the Gross National Product." (Pg. 20)
He asks the question, What is wisdom? He asserts that "it can be FOUND only inside oneself. To be able to find it, one has first to liberate oneself from such masters as greed and envy," which will produce "insights of wisdom which are obtainable in no other way." (Pg. 38) He criticizes economists for whom the idea that there could be unhealthy, disruptive or destructive growth is "a perverse idea which must not be allowed to surface." (Pg. 48)
He argues that it is man, not nature, who provides the primary resource, and that "the key factor of all economic development comes out of the mind of man." In fact, education is the "most vital of all resources." (Pg. 79) He proposes a change in the DIRECTION of research: "towards nonviolence rather than violence; towards an harmonious cooperation with nature rather than a warfare against nature"; toward the low-energy solutions rather than "brutal, wasteful, and clumsy solutions of our present-day sciences." (Pg. 142-143)
He strongly criticizes nuclear energy, since it requires the accumulation of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make "safe"; "The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on the basis of such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economic affairs of man as if people really did not matter at all." (Pg. 145)
He proposes replacing the "inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating" technology of mass production with "intermediate technology," which is more conducive to decentralization, compatible with ecology, "gentle" in its use of scarce resources, etc. (Pg. 154) Such a movement would lead back to the real needs of man: "Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful." (Pg. 159)
Although some may view this book as exclusively a product of its time (e.g., Governor Jerry Brown's first term), I would suggest that it may still have something to offer we technologically sophisticated moderns.
He begins by saying that it is an "absurd and suicidal error to believe... that the problem of production has been solved." (Pg. 15) Our current methods of production "are already eating into the very substance of industrial man... The substance of man cannot measured by the Gross National Product." (Pg. 20)
He asks the question, What is wisdom? He asserts that "it can be FOUND only inside oneself. To be able to find it, one has first to liberate oneself from such masters as greed and envy," which will produce "insights of wisdom which are obtainable in no other way." (Pg. 38) He criticizes economists for whom the idea that there could be unhealthy, disruptive or destructive growth is "a perverse idea which must not be allowed to surface." (Pg. 48)
He argues that it is man, not nature, who provides the primary resource, and that "the key factor of all economic development comes out of the mind of man." In fact, education is the "most vital of all resources." (Pg. 79) He proposes a change in the DIRECTION of research: "towards nonviolence rather than violence; towards an harmonious cooperation with nature rather than a warfare against nature"; toward the low-energy solutions rather than "brutal, wasteful, and clumsy solutions of our present-day sciences." (Pg. 142-143)
He strongly criticizes nuclear energy, since it requires the accumulation of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make "safe"; "The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on the basis of such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economic affairs of man as if people really did not matter at all." (Pg. 145)
He proposes replacing the "inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating" technology of mass production with "intermediate technology," which is more conducive to decentralization, compatible with ecology, "gentle" in its use of scarce resources, etc. (Pg. 154) Such a movement would lead back to the real needs of man: "Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful." (Pg. 159)
Although some may view this book as exclusively a product of its time (e.g., Governor Jerry Brown's first term), I would suggest that it may still have something to offer we technologically sophisticated moderns.
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A Classic For Our Times
20. November 2011
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I am astounded to find that the only review of this classic work, which has inspired countless numbers of people from all around the world, should only be given 3 stars by its only reviewer, apparently because they found it hard to read. Earth to reviewer: Profound books are hard to read!
In any case, the criticism is unwarranted.
In any case, the criticism is unwarranted.
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