A Guide For the Perplexed
A Guide For the Perplexed
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Published:
19 October, 1995
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099480211 |
| ISBN10 | 0099480212 |
| Number Of Pages | 192 |
| Item Weight | 142 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 198 x 12 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
A condensation of a vast and refreshingly unorthodox system of ideas -- Arthur Koestler * Observer *
Schumacher's arguments are invigorating, provoking, and often dramatic * New Statesman *
The most exciting philosophical book for ages * Daily Mail *
There is a rich store of wisdom and understanding, embedded in the religions of East and West, which our dangerous preoccupation with science has scanted and ignored... This book is about the different ways in which people may see and the blindness of only seeing in one particular way. * Sunday Telegraph *
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Author's Bio
Before the publication of Small is Beautiful, his bestselling reappraisal of Western economic attitudes, Dr E. F. Schumacher was already well known as an economist, journalist and progressive entrepreneur. Born in Germany, he first came to England in 1930 as a Rhodes Scholar to study economics at New College, Oxford. Later, at the age of twenty-two, he taught economics at Columbia University, New York. As he found theorising without practical experience unsatisfying, he then went into business, farming and journalism. He resumed the academic life for a period at Oxford during the war, afterwards serving as Economic Adviser to the British Control Commission in Germany from 1946 to 1950. In later years, his advice on problems of rural development was sought by many overseas governments. Dr Schumacher was awarded the CBE in 1974. He died in 1977.