What E. F. Schumacher thinks about simplicity

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Economist (1911 to 1977) whose Small Is Beautiful (1973) argued for human-scale technology, Buddhist economics and an economy that respects natural limits.

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   Our readingThe keynote of Buddhist economics is simplicity and non-violence

   Their wordsThe keynote of Buddhist economics, therefore, is simplicity and non-violence.

   ↗Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Harper & Row, 1973)archive.org All 12 from this book