by E. F. Schumacher · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475302133
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«Lo pequeño es hermoso» is the essay by E. F. Schumacher, published by Orbis in 1983 in hardback (320 pages, in Spanish).
Schumacher argues that economics and technology should be reoriented to fit the human scale rather than pursue growth for its own sake. The work draws on papal encyclicals, Buddhist economics and Mao Zedong to address natural resources, development, nuclear energy, unemployment and business organization.
It belongs to the «Biblioteca de Economía» collection, no. 3, and is the Spanish translation of «Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered».
For the general reader: it avoids specialized language and offers a humanist reflection on economics and development.
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher was a German-born British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970, and founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group in 1966.
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