We can’t get There from Here
November 25, 2024
The 44th Annual E.F. Schumacher Lecture will feature Paul Hawken and Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation.
Newsletter Archive
The Monster Admonishes Dr. Frankenstein
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.
A Broad Movement of Reconstruction
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.
Rural Unemployment Leads to Mass-Migration
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.
The Problem of a Dual Economy
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.”
Technology with a Human Face
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.
“To Be Thy Adam,” A Public Conversation with Bayo Akomolafe and Friends
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)
Saluting an Early Environmentalist on His Birthday
August 16, 2024
Fritz Schumacher was born on August 16, 1911. He was destined to be one of the most influential voices in the Twentieth Century for protection of the environment.
“Down by the Riverside” | Bayo Akomolafe & Friends
July 24, 2024
“Down by the Riverside,” A Town Hall featuring Dr. Bayo Akomolafe alongside nine stellar scholar-activists, will take place on Wednesday, August 7th from 1:30 to 5:30 PM Eastern Time.
The End of Growth
July 9, 2024
We continue our chapter-by-chapter look at our refreshed study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On,” reexamining Schumacher’s 1973 landmark of ecological economics in light of our own time.
The Proper Use of Land
June 20, 2024
As we continue our chapter-by-chapter look at our refreshed study guide, “Small is Beautiful Revisited…50 Years On,” we reexamine Schumacher’s 1973 landmark of ecological economics in light of our own time.