Small is beautiful — Technology as if people mattered

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

✍ E. F. Schumacher 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 173 KB

SUMMARY: Small Is Beautiful is 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

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

✍ E. F. Schumacher 📂 Fiction 📅 2010 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 149 KB

SUMMARY: Small Is Beautiful is 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

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

✍ E. F. SCHUMACHER 📂 Fiction 📅 1989 🏛 Harper Perennial 🌐 English ⚖ 149 KB

### Review “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 ) “ _Small Is Beautiful_ changed the way many people think about bigness and its h

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

✍ Schumacher, E F 📂 Fiction 📅 2011 🏛 Random House 🌐 English ⚖ 149 KB

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 Wester

Research Section: Does size matter? Is s

Research Section: Does size matter? Is small really beautiful?

✍ Brian Walters 📂 Article 📅 2001 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 94 KB

Is small beautiful? A multicriteria asse

Is small beautiful? A multicriteria assessment of small-scale energy technology applications in local governments

✍ Jonathan Burton; Klaus Hubacek 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 177 KB

In its 2003 White Paper the UK government set ambitious renewable energy targets. Local governments and households have an increasing role in the overall energy system as consumers, suppliers of smaller-scale applications and citizens discussing energy projects. In this paper, we consider if small-s