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How does our economic system impact the way we live? Does it really affect what we truly care about?

Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation, Small Is Beautiful puts forward the revolutionary yet viable case for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.

One of the 100 most influential books published since World War II' The Times Literary Supplement



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A book of heart and hope and downright common sense about the future. -- Peter Lewis * Daily Mail *

Small Is Beautiful

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 16 September 1993
      ISBN-13 9780099225614
      978-0099225614
      ISBN-10 0099225611
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      Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Environmentalist thought and ideology The environment Sociology: work and labour

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      How does our economic system impact the way we live? Does it really affect what we truly care about?

      Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation, Small Is Beautiful puts forward the revolutionary yet viable case for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.

      One of the 100 most influential books published since World War II' The Times Literary Supplement



      Trade Review

      A book of heart and hope and downright common sense about the future. -- Peter Lewis * Daily Mail *

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