Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, by E. F. Schumacher, “The influential classic that taught us to value communities over corporations,” a book that created a movement calling for the end of excessive consumption back in the days of the Human Potential Movement, was a precursor to today when it’s become clear we need to become less materially oriented and more local and interpersonal. There’s a lecture program online, that’s first-rate and free, from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics that carries on that work.
Here, George Monbiot, a British journalist I’ve been a fan of for a long time, delivers the 40th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lecture. This is such a good talk about the American Dream not being real anymore, followed by a question period hosted by Jodie Evans, a SUE Speaks podcast guest who I also have been a fan of for a long time!
