Take Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) Composed By Ernst F. Schumacher File Ebook

tried to read this but found it dated and preachy, Some of Schumacher's fundamental ideas are wonderful and important, but I can't read books that make blanket statements about the iniquity and moral vacuity of modern society amp how things were better before theth/th/st century.


Also, if you're writing for an audience of nonconformists in the seventies and you're NOT a feminist, shame on you, Schumacher says that "most" women shouldn't have to work, yet claims that meaningful work is a human right, Um. In an ideal world as we are talking about ideal worlds, I suppose I would give Small Is Beautiful five: it contains ideas that everyone should be aware of.
So, for the ideas, five!

Unfortunately however, there are different ways to review a book and as a work of literature I found it slightly disappointing.
Obviously Schumacher was a great economistthinker of his day and, I imagine, a charismatic speaker, but this doesn't convince me writing was another of his strong suits.
Some essays I was glad to get to the end, not because I disagreed but because I wanted him to get to the point! Or, at least, give me something to think about until he did.
One or two were outofdate, like the case for relatively harmless coal fired power stations,

Hence three sure, I liked it but that's all,

The other difficulty I had was the overall style but which was probably down to its age, About the time he was writing it, I was moving up to ''big school'' and being handed those awful, dryprose things known in our time as ''text books''.
This reminded me a lot of those old text books, in contrast to the more conversational, less overly didactic style of today's specialist, nonfiction writers, But that's hardly Schumacher's fault for accidentally being of his own time,

tip: One to borrow, not buy, Also, treat the chapters as separate essays which, I gather, they are skip the ones that are too unreadable, but don't give up on the book yet!

“Nothing less than a fullscale assault on conventional economic wisdom” Newsweek

"One themost influential books published since World War II"The Times Literary Supplement

Hailed as an “ecobible” by Time magazine, E.
F. Schumachers riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during theenergy crisis, A landmark statement against “bigger is better” industrialism, Schumachers Small Is Beautiful paved the way for twentyfirst century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachss The End of Poverty, Paul Hawkens Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yuniss Banker to the Poor, and Bill McKibbens Deep Economy.
This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization, Schumacher discourses on economics, through the prism of an ethics of care and respect for human dignity, Although some ideas are dated and the Christian grounding gives his metaphysical comments a flavour that can't help but put me off, this book contains several insights and ideas which merit interest amp attention today.
These include the absurdity of treating nonrenewable resources as income instead of capital, the central importance of fulfilling work to human wellbeing and the need for an 'intermediate technology' to facilitate securing full employment.
The language is clear, free from jargon and meant to be understood by the lay person, so I'd recommend this to students and general readers

"There are no 'final solutions' to this type of problem corporate ownership and organisation, which should depend on size and circumstances.
There is only a livings solution achieved day by day on a basis of a clear recognition that both opposites are valid, "
I finally put it down when he implied the unemployment rate is an inaccurate measure for the health of our economy true because women should be staying at home to take care of children untrue, sexist.
After reading the book, I now have a lot of clarity on society and systems management, planning and policies from a more encompassing perspective that stresses on immaterial values and includes understanding society as an integral part of nature.


It is true that a lot of the population I'm in contact with including myself spends a large percentage of it's thinking on satisfying materialistic personal agendas while aesthetics of existence is completely pushed aside, if not rarely noticed.
This is not solely because of some incapacity of individuals, rather it's because their attention is directed elsewhere mostly by needs and aspirations determined mechanically by current systems.
Schumacher has convinced me that our current education from most of society as well as institutions and mechanisms of our social systems really do have a part played here.


The present situation is definitely a lot different from Schumacher's own from befores but I feel that the essential mental framework that people operate from remains the same: thus most of the book is STILL relevant.
This book has been a part of my mental image of how the world ought to be for as long as I can remember, While the book was published inI think I had the notions in my mind even before that, Economic success should not be based on the largest size or the largest profits but the largest benefit to people, But I had never actually read the book as amazing as that seems, Now I have finally read it as it approaches itsth anniversary,

The book has a few too many biblical references for my liking, But it also has a bit of Buddhism to balance things off apparently in the spiritual realm, I have edited out quite a few paragraphs for you to pursue on your own, Here's one of my favorites:

The cultivation and expansion of needs is the antithesis of wisdom, It is also the antithesis of freedom and peace, Every increase of needs tends to increase one's dependence on outside forces over which one cannot have control, and therefore increases existential fear.
Only by a reduction of needs can one promote a genuine reduction in those tensions which are the ultimate causes of strife and war,

It's amazing how old this idea is and yet how little we really take to heart, let us change. One of the few leftist books that's thoughtfully, gently written, . . sans the anger and bitterness, This was the first book I had read by Schumacher, and I'm very glad I finally read it, I dabble in distributism and Catholic Social Teaching, and this book is referenced in both, and for good reason, Unfortunately, while our world is corrupted with sin of lust and envy, and greed, it'll be difficult to get it back to where it needs to be, as Schumacher suggests.

At times this book seemed to drift off a bit, which made it difficult for me to focus, but overall a fantastic read, and recommended to all.
A classic treatise on Gandhian economics, or as the title says, "people centered economics", Schumacher provides a good criticism of the modern methods of production that resulted from the desacrilisation of nature and man, Production relations that resulted in the alienation of man from his work and creative spirit, and the culture of mass production and mass consumption that led to the ruthless and violent exploitation of nature.

He rightly challenges the unsustainable path of accumulation and consumption and the Keynesian economic models that are built on the principles of market individualism and social nonresponsibility.
He challenges the modern politics where economic growth has become the highest of all values and the human, cultural and ecological concerns have become subordinated to it.


This isn't just romantic idealism, Schumacher gives many practical ideas regarding using intermediate technology to enable production by masses and some interesting case studies and ideas regarding common ownership of the means of production.
“Daha fazla eğitim, ancak daha fazla bilgelik ürettiği ölçüde yararlıdır,
Eğitim metafiziğe yer vermediği sürece bize yardımcı olamaz, ”

İktisada ahlakı sokmak isteyen, vicdanlı, merhametli, insancıl ve ahlaklı bir istatistikçi Schumacher,yıl öncesinde bunları dile getirmiş olması çok kıymetli,
Kazanan küçük ve güzel olmalı, Kazanan küçük ve güzel olmadı, . .
Küçük yine de hala güzel, "Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, "

The Economics of E, F. Schumacher is what matters to people even if it's not endorsed by Governments, Companies and other Economists alike, This book is the most unusual treatise, enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology, Schumacher's Economics is more humane, ethical, moral, realistic and very close to nature, His economics is explained so succintly is that a reader just loves reading and knowing The Economics as if People really mattered,

He questions the very economic principles of the Western Countries and Westernisation of Eastern Countries and cautions the East and tries to plead how much East is rooted in nature than the West and what happens if Western Concept of Economics is accepted all over the world.
He explains how "The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be selfbalancing, selfadjusting, selfcleansing, Not so much with technology, "

The best part of the book is the Concept of Mixed Economy which the writer explains in the end, He gives an excellent theory of how to

tackle "Laissez Faire" economic system which is where one feels why can't the Governments over the world adopt Schumacher's economics and shun the tried and tested economics which is ruining the already ruined world.
This book was written by EF Schumacher, a German economist, As an Economics graduate at a conservative liberal arts university in the US South, I enjoyed the philosophy and ideas put forward in "Small is Beautiful", Trust me, this was not on my reading list, . . I am fascinated with the idea that capitalism has become the new religion for the US/West and that envy/greed the primary morals, The book discusses how capitalistic systems push for growth to solve problems, including poverty, unemployment and standard of living, It also shows how capitalistic systems fall short of solving these problems, because itassumes that infinite growth is possible within a finite world sustainable econ, point andthat the complete focus on increased profits, coupled with new technologies, has led to a decline in the selffulfillment of mankind in relation to his/her work.
The book argues that the community loses when individuals cannot connect to the work they do with their hands/mind, when people cannot connect what they buy from where it came and how it was produced.
Schumacher reminds us that there are spiritual, moral and ecological losses in a capitalistic system, All is not lost, but there needs to be awareness of these losses and adjustments made, He argues for small businesses and the utilization of intermediate technologies so that instead of "mass production" we can have production by the masses,

This book has inspired me to read more along this subject, .