Small Is Powerful The Future As If People Really Mattered

Name: Small Is Powerful The Future As If People Really Mattered
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ISBN: 9780275954246

ISBN-10: 0275954242

ISBN-13: 9780275954246

Edition: 1995

Authors: John Papworth

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The author has found the true villain of the 20th century, and it is a concept--bigness. The answer to such disparate questions as why do we experience global wars, mass dictatorships, economic tornadoes, a population explosion and a mounting resource environment crisis lie, according to Papworth, far back in history. They are the direct result, he attempts to show, of the forces unleashed by the collapse in the 16th century of the laws against usury. Having diagnosed this problem as stemming from this destruction of the power of people to control their work, Papworth goes on to propound a new politics which is the politics of "Small is Powerful"--a new and hopeful approach to the problems…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 10/24/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

JOHN PAPWORTH grew up in an orphanage in the East End of London and studied at the London School of Economics.



Foreword


The Monster Zubachism


The Luddite Defeat Community Destruction


Mass Society Economics


The Morals of Progress


Mass Unions and Workers


Guilds Radical Priorities


Democratic Government


The Social Framework Answers


The Giant States Quo Vadis?








Bibliography


Index