Barbara Wood delivered the Third Annual Robert Swann Lecture, titled “Revisiting Schumacher: Challenge, Courage, and Change,” on Saturday, April 5th at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, MA. In her lecture, Barbara addresses the two sides of her father’s, E.F. Schumacher’s, work—the economic and the spiritual. These two aspects of his thinking are highlighted and contrasted in Schumacher’s books, Small is Beautiful and A Guide for the Perplexed, respectively. Barbara argues that each of these are integral to the other. They were not separate avenues of inquiry, but rather one, informing each other in a quest for a deeper truth.
Revisiting Schumacher: Challenge, Courage, and Change
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Barbara Wood
Barbara Wood is the third of E. F. Schumacher’s eight children and his eldest daughter. She is a graduate in Economics and History from Bristol University, and also holds degrees in Theology. Before she married, she worked for the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action, and founded by her father) and the Voluntary Overseas … Continued