Small Is Still Beautiful (ePub)

“It is good to have Schumacher’s wisdom put before us again, after more than three decades, because the world has not heeded him in all this time, and given the peril it is in that wisdom is more necessary now than ever.” —Kirkpatrick Sale, author of Human Scale and cofounder of the American E. F. Schumacher Society

“This could hardly be a timelier book. More and more people are coming to the realization that the materialism, the rootlessness, and the hedonism of this consumer’s paradise we’ve built for ourselves are taking America down a dead-end road. E. F. Schumacher shows where liberals and conservatives go wrong, and Joseph Pearce makes Schumacher relevant for a new generation—one that desperately needs to hear Schumacher’s message. Pearce shows why ‘small is beautiful’ is the only sane and humane response to our insane ‘supersize me’ culture.” —Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons

“A wake-up call. This book is a primer on what is wrong with our basic economic principles and on what we need to do to re-think them.” —Dale Ahlquist, President, American Chesterton Society

“A deliberate and skillful reprise of E.F. Schumacher’s monumental and influential book of 1973 . . . Both books promote practicalities and Principles for ‘a human-scale way of life.’ ” —Review for Religious

“Small Is Still Beautiful may be, then, a surprise to many readers, focused as it is on economics, ecology, technology and politics. But this is arguably Pearce’s most personal and passionate work. . . . Pearce, a religious thinker and elegant author, masterfully writes about topics that could easily be dull and abstract. And he challenges readers to revisit and reconsider their assumptions about how and why the world works, or doesn’t work.” —National Catholic Register

“Many readers