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  • Good Morning, Beautiful Business

    Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Despite the dominating and destructive power of large, monolithic corporations, business can be an essential and effective force for community empowerment. Judy Wicks shows how locally rooted businesses can address the needs of all stakeholders ... Read more

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  • “Exuberant Episodes of Import Replacing”: Two Tributes to Jane Jacobs

    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.In these lectures, Susan Witt and Judy Wicks pay tribute to Jane Jacobs, legendary urban activist and visionary. Witt speaks to the warmth of Jacobs's spirit, reflecting on how she championed "ideas that matter". She was a supporter of the micro ... Read more

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    A myth-shattering investigation of the true cost of America's passion for finding a better bargainFrom the shuttered factories of the Rust Belt to the strip malls of the Sun Belt-and almost everywhere in between-America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little- examined obsession with bargains is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force ... Read more

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  • EcoMind

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    In EcoMind, Frances Moore Lapp' -- a giant of the environmental movement -- confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it's our faulty way of thinking about these ... Read more

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  • Less is More

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    Less stuff, less stress - more freedom, more joy.Our obsessive pursuit of wealth isn't working-people are afraid and anxious; we're destroying the planet, undermining happiness, and clinging to an unsustainable economy.But there's another way. Less can be More. Throughout history wise people have argued that we need to live more simply-that only by limiting outer wealth can we have inner wealth. ... Read more

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