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‘In Pursuit of Loneliness’ by John Wooding

July 20, 2013 by DickH Posted in Science, Culture, Current Events, Education, History, Lowell, Politics 1 Comment

“(We hope) that our transportation crisis will be solved by a bigger plane or a wider road, mental illness with a pill, poverty with a law, slums with a bulldozer, urban conflict with a gas, racism with a goodwill gesture.” – Philip E. Slater “Wisdom demands a new orientation of…

Schumacher’s ‘Small Is Beautiful’ Behind UK’s ‘Austerity?’

March 27, 2011 by PaulM Posted in Education, History, Lowell, Culture 1 Comment

The Guardian in the UK today has an in-depth article about the way the ideas in “Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered” by economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher influence the thinking and policies of Prime Minister David Cameron of England and some of his Conservative Party colleagues. I…