Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered — When Growth Consumes Its Foundations
What if economic growth can make a society look richer while consuming the resources that make future prosperity possible?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher as our lens, this episode investigates the difference between economic income and irreplaceable capital.
Schumacher argues that modern industrial economies often treat fossil fuels, ecological resilience, and human well-being as though they were endlessly replaceable inputs. The result is a system capable of…
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