Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

Donald Brittain , Barrie Howells & Douglas Kiefer,
1978,
29 min 59 s

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This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film introduces us to this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.

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“I am a housing consultant to Practical Action (formerly ITDG) in Sri Lanka. This is the first time I have seen this film clip and i am impressed with it. i hope to forward it to people I know who will be interested in the philosophy of small is beautiful.” — Vasant, 2 Feb 2011