小的是美好的
Small Is Beautiful
E. F. Schumacher · 初版 1973 年
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- 倡导中间技术，避免盲目推行脱节的高端技术
- 启发全新思考视角，避免思想陷入单一派系
- 反思技术至上观念，兼顾社会与生命福祉
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered 是德裔英国经济学家 E. F. Schumacher 于 1973 年出版的一本文集。“Small Is Beautiful”这一书名源自 Schumacher 的导师 Leopold Kohr（1909–1994）所倡导的一项原则，该原则提倡将小型、适度的技术、政策和政治体制，作为对抗主流“越大越好”理念的更优替代方案。1973 年能源危机以及全球化概念普及等环境、社会和经济力量的交织，推动了 Schumacher 的 Small Is Beautiful 批……
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……哪怕技术上很落后，但在这方面却更先进，完全可以反过来教美国人如何在没有科技的情况下真正获得高品质的生活）。[如果你打算介入，请先读读舒马赫的《Small is Beautiful》，好好琢磨一下他对“中间技术”的论述（举个例子：你总不能给一个还在学代数的人直接扔微积分方程吧）。] 如果只是教别人怎么最快找到最近的纸杯蛋糕……
…advanced, even if they are technologically backwards, and could teach the Americans how to actually achieve quality of life without technology). [And if you are going to step in, please read Schumacher's "Small is Beautiful", and pay attention to his arguments for intermediate technology (i.e., you don't dump differential equations on someone still learning algebra).] If showing someone how to best locate the nearest cupcake…
……先从古典自由主义（Classical Liberalism）开始，它和现代政治自由主义完全是两码事。就像同一个 app 里有两个名字几乎一样的 feature，简直把人搞懵逼了。* E. F. 舒马赫的《Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered》——这本书会转变你的视角，非常有助于避免盲目沦为某种学派的信徒。* 马克思的那套很难啃，毕竟《资本论》大部头太厚了……
…start on Classical Liberalism, which is completely different than modern political liberalism. It's like having two features in an app with nearly the same name. Confusing as fuck. * E. F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - This book will shift your perspective, useful to avoid becoming an a mindless advocate for one school of thought or another. * Marx is a tough one as Capital is massive…
……动物等所经历的一切。我常常得出一个结论：我们随它们去就好——它们的生命和我们一样短暂，理应享有属于它们的那一小份快乐。这一切让我想起了恩斯特·F·舒马赫的《Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered》——一本好书。
…animals, etc, go through. I often come to the conclusion that we should just let them be - their lives, much like ours, are short-lived, and they deserve their little piece happiness. All this reminds me of Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher - a great read.
……人生的各种演出、真实的舞台、商店、旅馆、组织里的层级，这些有着规矩和习俗的微观世界，规矩是如何被颠覆、被创造、被演化的……充满了引人入胜的故事。E.F. 舒马赫的《Small is Beautiful》——绝对是关于政府、金钱和社会的佳作。把经济学视作以人为本的学问。我第一次读它的时候，甚至觉得地球的存亡就系于人们读不读这本书了。我发现曼德维尔的《蜜蜂的寓言》……
…performances of life, actual stages, shops, hotels, ranks in organisations, these little worlds with rules and customs, how the rules are subverted, created, evolve.. full of fascinating stories. EF Schumacher Small is Beautiful - definitely about government, money, society. Economics as if people mattered. When I first read this, I thought the survival of the planet depended on people reading it. I found Mandeville's Fable…
工程方面：大三的数学物理及其配套教材（麦夸里著）。得知麦夸里竟然是个化学家时，直接把我惊呆了。工程在社会中的角色：舒马赫的《小即是美》和《迷惑者的指南》是彻底让我摆脱技术官僚世界观的最后稻草。（虽然伊里奇关于汽车平均时速只有 3 英里的论点，也曾让我动摇过对汽车的热爱）
Engineering: Third year math phys and its accompanying book (McQuarrie). It blew my mind when I learned McQuarrie is a chemist. Engineering's role in society: Schumacher's "Small is beautiful" and "Guide for the perplexed" was the straw finally broke me free of the technocrat worldview. (Although Illich's argument that a car's average speed is 3mph made me question my love for cars)
绝对是本神书。如果你对以人为尺度的发展（human-scale development）感兴趣，绝对应该去读读利奥波德·科尔（Leopold Kohr）的著作（http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr）。E.F. 舒马赫（凭借《Small is Beautiful》闻名）曾是他的学生，而科尔的文风甚至还要更切中要害、直戳痛处。他的书（我最喜欢的是《The Overdeveloped Nations》）不仅见解极其深刻，读起来也趣味十足。
Definitely a great book. If you're interested in human-scale development, you should definitely check out the writings of Leopold Kohr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr). E.F. Schumacher (of "Small is Beautiful" fame) was one of his students and Kohr writes even closer to the bone. His books (my favorite: "The Overdeveloped Nations") are not only extremly insightful but actually fun to read.