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Small in beautiful: economics as if people mattered

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This book is full of wisdom, and the writing sparkles. Although you should read it to experience it yourself, I will leave you with this passage:
We are always having all sorts of clever ideas about optimizing something before it even exists. I think the stupid man who says "something is better than nothing" is much more intelligent than than the clever chap who will not touch something unless it is optimal.

Bottom Line: Economists study how humans use scarce resources. Their decisions are motivated by philosophies of why they want to use those resources. This book discusses those decisions with an important question: Is the goal more consumption or happier people? Since consumption does not appear to make us more happy, we have to ask what does, and Schumacher answers that question by noting that people living in communities and doing meaningful work are happier.

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339.47 SCH s

Z. HANDIMAN

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339.47 SCH s

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New York : Harper & Row., 1973

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290p.; 22 cm.

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English

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339.47

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CONSUMPTION, ECONOMICS

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