Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher
Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher
1978, English. Directed by Douglas Kiefer & Barrie Howells & Donald Brittain.
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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Who directed Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher?
Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher (1978) was directed by Douglas Kiefer and Barrie Howells and Donald Brittain.