Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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.Schumacher's greatest achievement was the fusion of ancient wisdom and modern economics in a language that encapsulated contemporary doubts and fears about the industrialized world. He saw that we needed to relearn the beauty of smallness, of human-scale technology and environments. In Small Is Still Beautiful, Joseph Pearce revisits Schumacher's arguments and examines the multifarious ways in which they matter now more than ever. Bigger is not always best, Pearce reminds us, and small is still beautiful.
About the Author:
Joseph Pearce is currently editor of the Saint Austin Review and Writer in Residence and Associate Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University

Language: English

Pages: 350

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Release: December 12, 2006

ISBN: 1933859059

ISBN 13: 9781933859057

Small is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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.Schumacher's greatest achievement was the fusion of ancient wisdom and modern economics in a language that encapsulated contemporary doubts and fears about the industrialized world. He saw that we needed to relearn the beauty of smallness, of human-scale technology and environments. In Small Is Still Beautiful, Joseph Pearce revisits Schumacher's arguments and examines the multifarious ways in which they matter now more than ever. Bigger is not always best, Pearce reminds us, and small is still beautiful.
About the Author:
Joseph Pearce is currently editor of the Saint Austin Review and Writer in Residence and Associate Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University

Language: English

Pages: 350

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Release: December 12, 2006

ISBN: 1933859059

ISBN 13: 9781933859057

More books from Joseph Pearce

Tolkien: Man and Myth: A Literary Life

J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning in The Hobbit

4.1/5 ( ratings)

C.S. Lewis and the Catholic Church

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief

4.3/5 ( ratings)

The Quest for Shakespeare

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Race with the Devil

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton

4.5/5 ( ratings)

The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Hound of Distributism

The Hound of Heaven: A Modern Adaptation

4.6/5 ( ratings)

The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge

4.5/5 ( ratings)

From Christendom to Americanism and Beyond: The Long, Jagged Trail to a Postmodern Void

4.6/5 ( ratings)

The Romantic Poets Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge (Ignatius Critical Editions)

3.6/5 ( ratings)

A Better Admissions Test: Raising the Standard for College Entrance Exams

4.3/5 ( ratings)

An Unexpected Journal: The Genius of G.K. Chesterton: A Reflection on His Works.

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Roads to Rome: A Guide to Notable Converts from Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to the Present Day

Chesterton de Pie

Rate this book!

Write a review?