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Small Is Beautiful
- Author
- E F Schumacher
- Narrator
- John Sackville
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 4 April 2019
- Run Time
- 10 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Environmentalist thought and ideology, Economic systems and structures, Macroeconomics, Consumerism, Economic theory and philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher.
How does our economic system impact the way we live? Does it really affect what we truly care about?
Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation, Small Is Beautiful puts forward the revolutionary yet viable case for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations.
‘One of the 100 most influential books published since World War II’ The Times Literary Supplement
Critics Review
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A book of heart and hope and downright common sense about the future.
Daily Mail
User Reviews
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The foreword to the book really says it all and I cannot do any better: despite repetitions, miscalculation of the imminence of the threats, the book remains to my mind a clear criticism of many modern trends of materialism and encouragement that a middle ground exists and is worth seeking out.
AlmostSurelyRob 2026-06-15
Details
- Author
- E F Schumacher
- Narrator
- John Sackville
- Duration
- 10 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 April 2019
- ISBN
- 9781473569539
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Environmentalist thought and ideology, Economic systems and structures, Macroeconomics, Consumerism, Economic theory and philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Small is Beautiful by E F Schumacher. How does our economic system impact the way we live? Does it really affect what we truly care about? Oxford economist E. F. Schumacher provides an enlightening study of our economic system and its purpose, challenging the current state of excessive consumption in our society. Offering a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalisation, Small Is Beautiful puts forward the revolutionary yet viable case for building our economies around the needs of communities, not corporations. ‘One of the 100 most influential books published since World War II’ The Times Literary Supplement
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