The Big Ideas podcast: EF Schumacher's 'small is beautiful'

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The Big Ideas podcast: EF Schumacher's 'small is beautiful'

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Nov 9, 2011

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Economist Andrew Simms and Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting are among those joining Benjamen Walker to discuss the legacy of Schumacher's 'Buddhist economics'

Released:

Nov 9, 2011

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Every month, a group of academics, columnists and philosophers dissect a phrase that's become an intellectual cliché in order to analyse its true meaning

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The Big Ideas podcast: EF Schumacher's 'small is beautiful'

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