I doubt if Americans have been so influenced by printed eloquence since Thomas Paine’s Common Sense helped focus our founding independence. Schumacher is fighting a similar oppression, only this time we colonized ourselves, as he reveals by sub-titling his book “Economics as if People Mattered.”
The wonder of Schumacher’s work is his eminent practicality, based on his years with the British Coal Board.
With good sense and a mature spirituality, Schumacher comes on like John Henry against the mega-machine, sure that he will win, and he is.
