Sandy Liddel Haliday, (2023)
Sprache: english,
This is the 50th anniversary year of the publication of Small is Beautiful - economics as if people mattered (Blond & Briggs) by the radical German-English economist Fritz Schumacher. It sets out his thoughts on, amongst other things, the limits to growth. It contains a thoroughly blistering critique of GDP as a measure of progress and a highly intelligent and articulate discussion around the nature of technology and "good work" in the 1973 energy crisis. My degree in Engineering Design & Appropriate Technology was strongly influenced by Schumacher and as I entered the workplace his ideas seemed normal, to me. I was surprised to find that in "the real world" they were largely unknown concepts. It enabled me to be very productive in bringing environmental and social concerns to the attention of built environment professionals who were perplexingly ignorant and to highlight that continuity and not change presented the real risk.
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