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44 years’ worth of Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures The name Hildegarde Hannum is well known to longtime members of the Schumacher Center. She and her husband, Hunter, attended the first E. F. Schumacher Lecture in 1981 at Mount Holyoke College. Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson were the speakers in a program themed People, Land, and…
The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture took place on Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 featuring Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation. This virtual event was hosted and moderated by Alex Forrester, Board Member of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics and Co-Founder of Rising Tide Capital.
“Since there is now increasing evidence of environmental deterioration, particularly in living nature, the entire outlook and methodology of economics is being called into question. The study of economics is too narrow and too fragmentary to lead to valid insights, unless complemented and completed by a study of meta-economics.”
– E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful