“I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.” Has BeensUseProblemAgeBeliefLanguageModernIntellectualIllusionTreatsBasesErrorsEnvironmentalProductionsDuesIncomeEconomistInabilityStewardshipSophisticationIrreplaceableSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.” RealPhilosophyProblemEconomicEventsPlanetsPhilosophicalMaterialismOur PlanetReal Problems Author:E. F. Schumacher
“A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.” WayProblemEarthEnvironmentGenerationsSucceedEnvironmentalViolent Author:E. F. Schumacher
“The heart of the matter, as I see it, is the stark fact that world poverty is primarily a problem of two million villages, and thus a problem of two thousand million villagers.” WorldHeartTwoMatterFactsProblemPovertyMillionsThousandVillageStarksWorld Poverty Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“The key words of violent economics are urbanization, industrialization, centralization, efficiency, quantity, speed. . . . The problem of evolving a nonviolent way of economic life [in the West] and that of developing the underdeveloped countries may well turn out to be largely identical.” WayLifeWellsMayCountryProblemTurnsEconomicKeysEconomicsWestSpeedViolentDevelopingEvolveQuantityEfficiencyIdenticalIndustrializationCentralizationUrbanizationUnderdeveloped Countries Author:E. F. Schumacher
“There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.” Has BeensProblemEconomicEconomic Problems Author:E. F. Schumacher
