Small Is Beautiful Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

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 Londonbased 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