Archive for Category: "E.F. Schumacher"
Éloge de la subsidiarité
Le monde a changé, des problèmes nouveaux se posent, des situations nouvelles ont émergé.
Small is toujours Beautiful
Small Is Still Beautiful de Joseph Pearce a, en effet, été publié en 2006 aux États-Unis. Il appartient à un genre hybride, mêlant la réflexion politique et économique à une véritable enquête auprès des acteurs de terrain.
A Still, Small Voice
Take away the family from the heart of society and you are left with a heartless hedonism. And since hedonism is selfishness without limits, it is the very antithesis of the self-limitation necessary for the restoration of economic and political sanity.
Los dineros locales
Los dineros locales pueden jugar un papel vital en el desarrollo de las economías regionales diversificadas. Los dineros locales dan definición e identidad a las regiones, animan las transacciones personalizadas entre vecinos y ayudan a revivir culturas locales.
Small is Still Beautiful
What have been the results of modem economic process? A few of them that Pearce cites are dying rural cultures, gigantic polluted cities (especially in poor countries), soil that has been depleted of its minerals and nutrients by constant use of chemical fertilizers, food robbed of its nutritive value—but economists, take note, it is very cheap!
Small is Beautiful, and So is Rome
The Catholic tradition provided Schumacher with more than a personal spiritual haven, however. It also gave him the building blocks for his own economics of human scale and appropriate technology.
The Education of E.F. Schumacher
He spent the last few remaining years of his life basking in the reflected glory of his best-selling book, secure in the knowledge that he had radically changed the outlook of millions of people. By 1977 his views had become so popular that he was invited by President Carter for a half-hour talk in the White House and the President was keen to be photographed holding a copy of Small is Beautiful.