Small Is Still Beautiful
by Pearce, JosephFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-12-12
Publisher(s): Isi Books
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Summary
A Third of a century ago, E. F. Schumacher rang out a timely warning against the idolatry of giantism with his book Small Is Beautiful. Few books before or since have spoken so profoundly to urgent economic and social considerations. Humanity was lurching blindly in the wrong direction, argued Schumacher. Its obsessive pursuit of wealth would not, as so many believed, ultimately lead to Utopia but more probably to catastrophe.
Author Biography
Joseph Pearce is currently editor of the Saint Austin Review and Writer in Residence and Associate Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction: A Still, Small Voice | p. xiii |
| At What Price Growth? | |
| Beginnings and Ends | p. 3 |
| Malignant Growth | p. 11 |
| Expand and Die | p. 27 |
| Economics and the Soul | |
| The Cost of Free Trade | p. 43 |
| Mechanistic and Materialistic | p. 61 |
| Economics with Soul | p. 73 |
| Size Matters | |
| The Cult of Bigness | p. 91 |
| Small Beer: A Case Study | p. 103 |
| Making Democracy Democratic | p. 117 |
| A Democracy of Small Areas | p. 133 |
| Grounded in the Land | |
| The Use and Abuse of Land | p. 153 |
| Chemical and Biological Warfare | p. 173 |
| The Resurrection of the Soil | p. 193 |
| Technology with a Human Face | p. 211 |
| Green Technology | p. 227 |
| Living Legacy | |
| Cooperate and Prosper | p. 245 |
| The Proof of the Pudding | p. 265 |
| Ends and Beginnings | p. 279 |
| Begin Here | p. 291 |
| Notes | p. 315 |
| Index | p. 327 |
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