Ernst F. Schumacher

“Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom” —Newsweek"One the 100 most influential books published since World War II"—The Times Literary SupplementHailed as an “eco-bible” by Time magazine, E.F. Schumacher’s 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 “bigger is better” industrialism, Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful paved the way for twenty-first century books on environmentalism and economics, like Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Poverty, Paul Hawken’s Natural Capitalism, Mohammad Yunis’s Banker to the Poor, and Bill McKibben’s Deep Economy. This timely reissue offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.

The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. Man has obligations—to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real relationship with the world, then and only then can he know the meaning of living.Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." The concern of the mapmaker—in this instance, Schumacher—is to find for everything its proper place. Things out of place tend to get lost; they become invisible and their proper places end to be filled by other things that ought not be there at all and therefore serve to mislead.A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers. This constantly surprising, always stimulating book will be welcomed by a large audience, including the many new fans who believe strongly in what Schumacher has to say.

Good Work carries forward Schumacher's combination of a profound critique of Western industrial society with both a philosophical perspective and a detailed vision of other directions in which we can move, to help answer the questions: "What can I do?" "Where do I start?"Emphasizing such themes as the wiser use of natural resources, energy, economics, technology and science, and the nature and control of organizations, Good Work ranges across the most urgent concerns of humanity while keeping its central focus upon the human being: what individuals can actually do now to make a viable future visible in the present.Good Work stresses how we can liberate ourselves from assumptions which may have been valid in the past but which now are not only invalid but contribute to our own sense of powerlessness. We have convinced ourselves that our technology and large institutions have developed a'i uncontrollable momentum of their own when human experience actually indicates we can both control and redirect them—but only if we realize that the most important single resource is human beings.E. F. Schumacher was the Economic adviser of the National Coal Board in England from 1950 to 1970. German born, in 1930 he went as a Rhodes scholar to study economics at Oxford, and later taught economics at Columbia University. Before his death in 1977 he was a director of the Scott-Bader Company and The Soil Association in England.

This unique collection of essays captures Schumacher’s enthusiasm and energy, which we need to share in order to build the foundations of a better era from our turbulent modern world. In his own words “the three-fold crisis – the crisis of resources, the ecological crisis, and the social crisis” is upon us.

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http://www.colorado.edu/economics/mor...The term "Buddhist economics" was coined by E. F. Schumacher in 1955, when he travelled to Burma as an economic consultant for Prime Minister U Nu. The term was used in this essay "Buddhist Economics", which was first published in 1966 in Asia: A Handbook, and republished in his influential collection Small Is Beautiful (1973). The term is currently used by followers of Schumacher and by Theravada Buddhist writers, such as Prayudh Payutto, Padmasiri De Silva, and Phrabhavanaviriyakhun.Buddhist economists believe that as long as work is considered a disutility for labourers and labourers a necessary evil for employers, the true potential of the labourers and employers cannot be achieved. In such a situation, employees will always prefer income without employment and employers will always prefer output without employees. They feel that if the nature of work is truly appreciated and applied, it will be as important to the brain as food is to the body. Goods should not be considered more important than people and consumption more important than creative activity. They feel that as a result of this, the focus shifts from the worker to the product of the work, the human to the subhuman, which is wrong.

This is a collection of 6 papers and essays on the themes of intermediate technology and appropriate economic development by Ernst F. Schumacher, written or delivered between 1955 and 1961. The subjects are related to those addressed in Schumacher's book "Small is Beautiful."

Ta książka należy do kanonu namysłu nad współczesnym światem drugiej połowy XX wieku, i to nie tylko od strony ekonomicznej. Jest chyba najgłębiej sięgającym traktatem o współczesnej gospodarce. Opublikował go w 1973 roku jako niemal manifest swej filozofii ekonomii Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911–1977), urodzony w Niemczech obywatel brytyjski. Autor, pracując jako doradca w organach rządowych i międzynarodowych, dogłębnie poznał bolesne strony gospodarczej nowoczesności, które bez wkładu takich myślicieli jak on być może do dziś pozostałyby nierozpoznane. Zła mitologia wzrostu jako jedynego kryterium rozwoju, a nawet sensu gospodarki, dominacja molochów, nieskuteczność pomocy krajom (nie)rozwijającym się to problemy, które narodziły się kilkadziesiąt lat temu i które żyją nadal, nierozwiązane. Optując za innym, „ludzkim” i „buddyjskim” modelem ekonomii, Schumacher zakorzeniał ją w głębokich fundamentach ludzkiej egzystencji, uważając, że gospodarka ma sens tylko wtedy, gdy człowiek dla niej „coś znaczy”. Ten fundamentalizm i ta troska zapewniły jego dziełu kultowy charakter, a ono samo pozostaje świeże i inspirujące do dziś – także dla nas, którzy tamten okres spędziliśmy za „żelazną kurtyną”.

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"Una guida per i perplessi" è il testamento spirituale dell'economista e filosofo tedesco E. F. Schumacher (1911-1977), padre putativo del "movimento per la decrescita". Questo libro tenta di ridisegnare ex-novo una vera e propria "guida" da fornire all'uomo moderno, una "mappa della conoscenza e del vivere" grazie a cui poter tornare a orientarsi e a muoversi con sicurezza nel mondo e nelle relazioni con gli altri. Infatti il soggetto di studio del filosofo ed economista tedesco è l'uomo di oggi, "perplesso" sul proprio destino, la cui esistenza è completamente permeata dal materialismo e dallo scientismo, schiacciato da forze inique e cieche, privato di un fine a cui tendere. "Cosa dovrei fare della mia vita?", "Qual è il significato della religione e dell'arte?", "Cos'è la realtà?", "Conosco me stesso e gli altri?", sono alcune tra le domande fondamentali che il positivismo e il materialismo hanno liquidato come "superflue", "soggettive" e non "degne" di indagine. In questa "guida per vivere nel mondo", Schumacher rinuncia ai paradigmi dello scientismo e invita il lettore a rivolgersi su se stesso e riprendere possesso della propria vita e del senso dell'esistenza, per "vivere" e non semplicemente "essere vissuto".

Ernst Schumacher galt als einer der namhaftesten Theaterwissenschaftler und Brechtforscher der Gegenwart. Der bildhafte Abriss "Leben Brechts" geschrieben für einen Bildband wurde in diesem Buch erstmals in einer Taschenbuchausgabe zugänglich gemacht. Buch enthält viele Fotos. 508 Seiten

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Excerpt from Zur Syntax Rustebuef's Historische Entwickelung des syntaktischen Verhältnisses der Bedingungssätze irn Altfranzösischen. Franz. Studien III. Bd. Heft IV.

Ernst Schumacher, einer der letzten großen Theaterkritiker seiner Generation, Brechtforscher und Hochschullehrer aus Leidenschaft, verstarb im Sommer 2012 im Alter von neunzig Jahren. Das Buch versammelt seine späten Tagebücher (1992 - 2011); es sind unbekannte Texte aus zwei Jahrzehnten, die ein kulturhistorisches Dokument ersten Ranges als Bilanzgeschichte des Realsozialismus der DDR, aber auch des sehr persönlichen Erfahrungsgrundes deutsch/deutscher Nachkriegsgeschichte in der Zeit des Kalten Krieges; als ein Lesebuch über das Theater seiner Zeit, über die Liebe seines Lebens zu Renate, seiner Frau, - und zu seinem so tragisch früh verstorbenen Sohn Raoul. Zu entdecken fernerhin wunderbare Porträts bedeutender Zeitgenossen, berührende Heimaterinnerungen an die Familie und seine eigene Herkunft aus Bayern. Zu besichtigen ist das Bild eines bis zum Ende seines Lebens engagierten, großzügigen Menschen.

Biographische Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte nach 1945: Band 1-15 Biographische Quellen zur ab Band 16 Ernst Schumachers Leben vollzog sich jenseits gängiger Schablonen. In Bayern geboren (1921) und aufgewachsen, ab 1949 überzeugter Kommunist, siedelte er 1962 dauerhaft in die DDR über. Dort machte er sich als Brechtforscher, Hochschullehrer und Theaterkritiker einen Namen. Trotzdem verließ ihn das Heimweh nach Bayern nie. Schumacher hat stets gesamtdeutsch gedacht und die Teilung Deutschlands kritisiert – auch als Honecker sie akzeptierte. Zugleich hatte er stets die außereuropäische Welt im Blick – besonders das aufsteigende China. Ernst Schumachers autobiographische Aufzeichnungen aus fünf Jahrzehnten sind ein eindrucksvolles Dokument erlebter und erlittener Geschichte.