Small Is Still Beautiful

Godspy interviews Joseph Pearce about economist, icon of the Green movement, and Catholic convert E. F. Schumacher:

I think there are two fronts here that are needed. We do need to evangelize the Greens, and make them realize the fundamental flaw in the way they rationalize the relationship between man and the environment. But we also need to evangelize the conservatives. Slavish adherence to so-called free market economics is actually anathema to conservatism. Chesterton said that if you want to preserve a gatepost you don’t leave it as it is. You have to continually paint it. The whole idea that if you have a libertarian approach to economics you’re going to preserve tradition or institutions is absurd….

Also see the excerpt from Pearce’s book Literary Converts on Schumacher’s conversion.