Ernst Friedrich Schumacher

This author calls for an end to excessive consumption by individuals and corporations and, at the same time, calls for an economy based on the needs of people, not businesses.

Economics as If People Mattered

Small is Beautiful

Una guía para los perplejos

Mustafa Özel

Aklıkarışıllar için kılavuz

心智模式决定你的一生

解惑

Leopold Kohr

These were the early articles of E.F. Schumacher and Leopold Kohr, which were published in 'Resurgence and Fourth World Review' during the editorship of John Papworth. The two men were profound friends and were united in their belief about the size of societies being too big.

A Compendium of Essays by Two of the Most Influential and Challenging Authors of the 20th Century

A Pair of Cranks

One of the four sections in Small is Beautiful is concerned with energy supply. Schumacher's thinking on the subject can be followed in this new volume of selections from his speeches and writings. The industrialized nations of the world, and particularly Britain and the rest of Western Europe, are still struggling to recover from the huge price increases which the oil-producing countries started to impose in 1974. Schumacher warned against the folly of becoming dependent for energy supplies on the politically unstable Middle East as long ago as 1958 and on many later occasions. There is no doubt that if governments had followed his advice, there would today have been greater prosperity and harmony among the developed countries. Schumacher wrote and spoke a great deal on energy matters during the twenty years he was Economic Adviser to the National Coal Board. He was one of the first and remains one of the most cogent advocates of the energy needs of the developing countries, concern for whose peoples became the dominating purpose of his life. He spoke against the development of nuclear power, being fearful of health and safety hazards it involved. After he left the General Coal Board to build up the Intermediate Technology Group and to write Small is Beautiful, he continued to comment on energy policy. Beyond the question of energy, however, the book also includes Schumacher's ideas on public ownership, which are considered the most important on the subject since those of the Webbs and G. D. H. Cole. His opinions are particularly valuable since he was directly involved in the management of a nationalized industry during its formative years. This section of the book demonstrates the contribution an intellectual can make to the running of a business. Brought together from about fifty of Schumcaher's articles and speeches, by Geoffrey Kirk, a well-informed colleague for more than twenty years, Schumacher on Energy is distinguished by that originality, lucidity and freshness of thought which have appealed to the millions of reader of Small s Beautiful.

Speeches and Writings of E.F. Schumacher

Schumacher on Energy

A Study of Economics as If People Mattered

The only book that covers the whole range of Schumacherås thinking - essential reading for all admirers of Schumacher and his work. This I Believe will introduce to a new audience the freshness, clarity and profundity of his thinking, which has inspired a generation.

And Other Essays

This I Believe

An investigation of the consequences of conventional technology.

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher

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