October 30, 2025
On Saturday, November 22nd, at 3PM at St James Place in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield will deliver the 45th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture. The title is The Promise of Bioregional Economies. Registration is now open.
October 16, 2025
David Bollier is Director of the Schumacher Center’s Reinventing the Commons Program. Together with American and international colleagues, Bollier explores why specific commons work so well, what challenges they must overcome, and how to grow the Commonsverse.
August 7, 2025
The response to our notice of the untimely death of David Boyle demonstrates how much he was held in quiet esteem by those who knew him.
August 5, 2025
One of the Schumacher Center’s most trusted friends passed away on Solstice Eve. A historian, a journalist, an activist, a prolific writer, a quiet but authentic visionary, David Boyle was ever the champion of small communities and local economies. David Boyle was the author of books on social change, politics, and the future. He was editor of publications including Town & Country Planning, … Continued
March 9, 2025
Our chapter-by-chapter reading of David Boyle’s study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On” continues, revisiting Schumacher’s 1973 landmark text in light of our own time. The guide has been sparking animated discussions given the current political climate. (Each chapter guide is available on our site in addition to a full downloadable PDF.) In Chapter 16, Schumacher brings his critique of ‘gigantism’ in organizations into contact with the … Continued
February 24, 2025
We continue our chapter-by-chapter reading of David Boyle’s timely study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On.” Revisiting Schumacher’s 1973 landmark text in light of our own time, the guide is sparking generative discussions in classrooms, workplaces, and circles of contemplation. (Each chapter guide is available on our site in addition to a full downloadable PDF.) Having made in earlier chapters a thorough critique of conventional … Continued
February 15, 2025
On Saturday, April 5th at 3PM EDT, the Schumacher Center is hosting a two part event at Saint James Place in Great Barrington, MA: the Third Annual Robert Swann Lecture and the First Annual Common Wealth Prize. Barbara Wood and James Boyce are the speakers. The event is free but registration is requested. Please join us. More details below. THE … Continued
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