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Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered

E. F. Schumacher

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Fred Pearce loved it
Yes, Small is Beautiful was important for me as a lefty-political, as you'd say, in the early 1970s at university. It was one of the first books to suggest to me that there was another way.

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.