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Small Is Beautiful
by E. F. Schumacher
Economics as if people mattered: scale, appropriate technology, Buddhist economics, the limits of growth. The 1973 classic still read.
Read it if…
you want the founding text of human-scale economics.
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Skip it if…
you want data-driven modern work.
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Three things you will actually use
- Scale has limits.
- Technology should fit people.
- Enough is a concept.
Do this first
Read 'Buddhist Economics'.
Our verdict
Schumacher's classic.
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