Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

by E. F. Schumacher

E. F. Schumacher was a British economist who was suddenly thrust into a modest celebrity by the

publication of this book in 1973 (he died in 1977). It has sold nearly a million copies and is deservedly a

classic. Perhaps the most famous chapter in the book is “Buddhist Economics” in which Schumacher

carries out a thought experiment: what would our economic thinking be like if it was guided by the values

embedded in a great philosophy or theology? It is a masterpiece, not as scholarship on Buddhism but as

a challenge to our conventional ways of thinking.

Schumacher opposed neither technology nor global development nor entrepreneurship. What he

famously promoted was “technology with a human face,” “appropriate technology,” and “intermediate

technology.” He advocated development programs that distributed intermediate technologies to help

people do better what they already knew how to do and needed to do. He opposed exporting huge

advanced technological enterprises that would scar landscapes and require a new workforce divided into

drones and highly trained experts.

Schumacher believed in corporations with employee profit-sharing plans and with programmatic good

works in the surrounding community with some of the profits. He not only taught these ideas, he helped

start and run businesses that practiced these principles. Reading Schumacher is a bit like reading Max

DePree — very wise, insightful counsel, delivered with charm, warmth, and a positive attitude.

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>>3963202

I prefer a belief system that explains the world prior to 5000 BC.

The last Ice Age ended 12,000 years ago, which is when my ancestors migrated from Central Asia into the newly green lands of the West, Europe.

>>3963209

Why would the Chabad have a Cafe named Cafe 41?

I assume that 41 has a special meaning, and the only thing I can think of is that 41 is one less than 42 which is the answer to everything. So does it mean that they believe we are almost at the end of the world? And they are sipping coffee knowingly waiting for it?

>>3963553

It's not a mystery to me.

Whenever he raises his hand for a question, he gets called on, but the rabble of journalists don't realize it because they cannot see him back there. So he writes his notes in peace without having to keep waving his hand in the air. Sarah knows who each and every one of these journalists is. She know that John is well-behaved and respectful and doesn't wave his hand all the time. So he gets treated respectfully in return.

It's a small room so no problems hearing Sarah at the back.

>>3963561

Keep those steel mills humming, America wins when the money circulates.

>>3963567

Nobody needs to read it.

The proof of God's existence is within each one of us. We have NO NEED OF PROOF if we cannot communicate directly with God. So the first task is to find a quiet, private place and to listen internally for God's quiet voice and to feel God's presence within us. Once this happens, we can receive guidance, and if we still need proof of God's existence, that will be provided. True prayer is this quiet communication with God within each one of us.

>>3963727

It's true, he hasn't put ONE lowly criminal in jail. He has put over 12,000 of them in jail for human rights abuses, and several thousand more from the Federal government, for financial offenses discovered by the Inspectors General. Not to mention the lowly criminals in the VA where he has fired 3600 of them.

Things are HAPPENING on a grand scale.

Ask DHS about MS13 arrests, for instance.

>>3963755

It doesn't matter. All this bible nonsense is just that. NONSENSE.

The scriptures are imperfect records of what prophets related to men. They were written by men, and often they were modified by evil men to support their corrupt goals. Only direct communication is uncorrupted because it does not even require language.