A Guide For the Perplexed - Couverture souple

Schumacher, E F

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099480212 ISBN 13 : 9780099480211

Editeur : Vintage, 1995

Synopsis

A Guide for the Perplexed is E. F. Schumacher's classic work of philosophy and a statement of the philosophies that underpin his economic masterpiece Small is Beautiful. Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and knowledge, which exhibits the most important features of life in their proper prominence.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099480212
• ISBN 13: 9780099480211
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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