Small is beautiful : a study of economics as if people mattered / Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
| dc.contributor | Gilliver, Peter Oxford Dictionaries Oxford University Press Oxford |
| dc.contributor.author | Schumacher, E.F. (Ernst Friedrich), 1911-1977 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | London |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-21T16:15:41Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-21T16:15:41Z |
| dc.date.created | 1973 |
| dc.identifier | ota:0399 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/0399 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Economics -- Sociological aspects |
| dc.subject.other | Economics |
| dc.title | Small is beautiful : a study of economics as if people mattered / Ernst Friedrich Schumacher |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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I. <A E.F. SCHUMACHER> <T Small is Beautiful> <S I> <C i> <P 10> I. The Problem of Production One of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that ' the problem of production' has been solved. Not only is this belief firmly held by people remote from production and therefore professionally unacquainted with the facts -- it is held by virtually all the experts, the captains of indus+ try, the economic managers in the governments of the world, the academic and not-so-academic economists, not to mention the economic journalists. They may disagree on many things but they all agree that the problem of produc+ tion has been solved; that mankind has at last come of age. For the rich countries, they say, the most important task now is ' education for leisure' and, for the poor countries, the ' transfer of technology' . That things are not going as well as they ought to be going must be due to human wickedness. We must there+ fore construct a political system so perfect that human wic . . .
