{"id":11556,"date":"2019-04-07T18:53:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T01:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=11556"},"modified":"2019-04-07T18:54:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T01:54:12","slug":"book-small-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/book-small-is-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;Small is Beautiful&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/photo\/1117634.Small_Is_Beautiful\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1546864718l\/1117634.jpg\" alt=\"Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bookTitle\">Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p> by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/4615523.Ernst_F_Schumacher\">Ernst F. Schumacher<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom.\u201d \u2014<em>Newsweek<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One the 100 most influential books published since World War II&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2014&nbsp;<em>The Times Literary Supplement<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hailed as an \u201ceco-bible\u201d by\u00a0<em>Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine, E.F. Schumacher\u2019s riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since its initial groundbreaking publication during the 1973 energy crisis. A landmark statement against \u201cbigger is better\u201d industrialism, Schumacher\u2019s\u00a0<em>Small Is Beautiful\u00a0<\/em>paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachs\u2019s\u00a0<em>The End of Poverty<\/em>, Paul Hawken\u2019s\u00a0<em>Natural Capitalism<\/em>, Mohammad Yunis\u2019s\u00a0<em>Banker to the Poor<\/em>, and Bill McKibben\u2019s\u00a0<em>Deep Economy<\/em>. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Goodreads.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by&nbsp;Ernst F. Schumacher \u201cNothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom.\u201d \u2014Newsweek One the 100 most influential books published since World War II&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;The Times Literary Supplement Hailed as an \u201ceco-bible\u201d by\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine, E.F. Schumacher\u2019s riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/04\/07\/book-small-is-beautiful\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11558,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions\/11558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}