Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

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Hailed as an ?eco-bible? by?Time?magazine, E.F. Schumacher?s riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during the 1973 energy crisis. A landmark statement against ?bigger is better? industrialism, Schumacher?s?Small Is Beautiful?paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachs?s?The End of Poverty, Paul Hawken?s?Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yunis?s?Banker to the Poor, and Bill McKibben?s?Deep Economy. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.