This unique collection of essays captures Schumacher’s enthusiasm and energy, which we need to share in order to build the foundations of a better era from our turbulent modern world. In his own words “the three-fold crisis – the crisis of resources, the ecological crisis, and the social crisis” is upon us.
Author(s): Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
Publisher: Resurgence
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 223
City: Devon
Acknowledgements 6
Foreword by Satish Kumar 7
Introduction by Diana Schumacher 10
Setting the Scene
! The Party is Over 21
i End of An Era 2,5
Econom ics
3 Buddhist Economics 35
4 The New Economics 44
5 The Critical Question of Size , . 55
Work & Leisure
6 Insane Work Cannot Produce a Sane Society ' 67
7 Public Funds for Voluntary Work ' 74 .
8 Conscious Culture of Poverty 77
Industry
9 Industry & Morals ^ 87 :
io Technology &c Political Change - 97
i i Western Europe’s Energy Crisis i °9
D evelopm ent ;
iz Healthy Development v 1 1 9
13 Industrialisation through Intermediate Technology 130
14 Man need not Starve 143
C ities and the L a n d
15 No Future for Megapolis 16 1
16 The Use of the Land 172
17 How to Abolish Land Speculation 182
1 . S p iritu a lity and N o n -V io len ce
1 1 he Roots of Violence 189
I9 Asia Undermined 194
10 Message from the Universe 205
1 1 This I Believe. . . 215
Index
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