January 23, 2025
The Du Bois Fellowship Conversation Series continues in March with Báyò Akómoláfé and Erin Manning in dialogue around “Becoming Unsettled: Why White Virtue Will Not Save Us.” The free virtual event will take place on Thursday, March 6th at 11AM EST via Zoom. Schumacher Center Board Member Alex Forrester will guide the conversation. Báyò, Erin, … Continued
January 2, 2025
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 … Continued
December 19, 2024
The Spring 1985 Newsletter of the E. F. Schumacher Society (now the Schumacher Center for a New Economics) began with Peter Kropotkin’s theory of change and then went on to describe our commitment to an economics informed by place and our work to put theory into practice.
December 5, 2024
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.
December 4, 2024
Students from a rural school in Rajastan, India, February 13, 2023 (Photo by Meunierd for Dreamstime.com) David Boyle’s chapter-by-chapter study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On,” is introducing, and reintroducing, readers to E. F. Schumacher’s 1973 landmark text. As with any recognized classic work, the ideas expressed are proving as relevant today as when they were first written. Each … Continued
November 25, 2024
The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture will feature Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation.
October 29, 2024
The final public event in Bayo Akomolafe’s six-month W. E. B. Du Bois Fellowship with the Schumacher Center for a New Economics took place at St James Place in Great Barrington on September 11, 2024.
October 22, 2024
Having raised the insufficiency of “high tech” solutionism for the world’s poor and rural villages, and describing the promise of intermediate technology, in Chapter 13 Schumacher highlights a fundamental error in the prevailing Western conception of economics.
September 26, 2024
Our chapter-by-chapter reading of David Boyle’s study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On” continues, examining Schumacher’s 1973 landmark text in light of our own time. Chapter 12 carries a thematic thread of international development into a focus on intermediate technology. Having established “technology with a human face,” Schumacher brings this idea down into particulars.
September 19, 2024
We continue our chapter-by-chapter reading of David Boyle’s study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On,” which examines Schumacher’s 1973 landmark text in light of our own time.
Chapter 11 addresses the prevailing logic of international development. Building on questions raised in the earlier chapters, Schumacher is able here to pose what he calls “the central problem of development.”
August 28, 2024
We continue our chapter-by-chapter look at David Boyle’s lively study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On,” reexamining Schumacher’s 1973 landmark collection in light of our own time. Chapter 10 marks the book’s half way point.
August 24, 2024
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)