Schumacher
The Question of Scale
On the Optimal Size of Things, the Pathologies of Gigantism, and the Right Relationship Between the Human and the System
Schumacher
On the Optimal Size of Things, the Pathologies of Gigantism, and the Right Relationship Between the Human and the System
The Other Economy
On why absolute decoupling from GDP growth is empirically implausible, and how planned contraction might protect human welfare while reducing material throughput
The Architecture of Capital
On how banks create money through lending rather than transferring it, and why this makes economies structurally prone to boom-and-bust cycles
The Other Economy
On how cooperative enterprise distributes power and surplus through democratic governance, challenging capitalism's concentration of both
The Architecture of Capital
On how shareholder value ideology restructured corporations, households, and daily life itself into engines of financial extraction and risk-shifting