E.F. Schumacher
Flaherty, Francis J.
Tribalism troubled him as well, espe- cially the jingoism by which rich nations systematically gouged and gutted poor ones. Thi s was a personal belief as well as an intellectual one. A native...
...He was a guiding light behind a worker-owned Swiss cor- poration...
...Perhaps this lively and clear biography will help to return his good ideas to the prominence they had when he died in 1977...
...Though delightful, these are mere sidelights to the proper focus of the book on Schumacher the polymathic economist.9 If anything, the need for his gentle, humane economics is more ur- gent now than when he began to conjure it up nearly fifty years ago...
...With the high sensitivity of the outcast, he saw patriotism as thedanger it can be...
...He fashioned a widely adopted strategy for third-world agricultural de- velopment using small-scale, or "inter- mediate," technology...
...So isn't it a "consistent ethic of life" for Christians who fight against abortion to also oppose nuclear war and capital punishment and support the powerlefis, the old, the hungry, the handicapped, the unemployed and the terminally ill because there is a common denominator-respect for life from the womb to the tomb...
...And we learn much about her father as a man his love of thinking, his intellectual restlessness, his quirks, and his occa-sional arrogance...
...More specifi- cally, his many projects fleshed out his ideas...
...Schumacher offered at least some answers to the problems he raised...
...The role of relics in Catholic life and what the Church teaches about them are all revealed and documented for the first time inthis unique story that is sure to be widely read and discussed...
...And he devised ingenious in- centive and promotional structures for the British coal industry, so that miners could look forward to something more than the dirty, dead-end job of digging...
...A native German who fled what he called the "nationalist poison" of the Nazis shortly before World War II, Schumacher at times was both scorned as a traitor by some Ger- mans and shunned as a suspect alien by some of his adopted British citizens...
...Includes 16 pages of full-color photos...
...of his moral responsibility" beyond "national, racial, occupational, [and] re- ligious" lines, he wrote in a 1937 letter to his wife...
...As a Catholic, I am concerned about Catholic bishops who support Reagan in word or action...
...JERRY NOWAK Provocative new reading for Contemporary Catholics JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT HAD DISAPPEARED[[ THE PERSISTENT PREJUDICE by Michael Schwartz Anti-Catholicism is America's "invisible prejudice" says the director of public af-fairs for the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights...
...and he followed a long spiritual quest that brought him from sci- entific rationalism in his youth to non- denominational deism in middle age and to conversion to Catholicism in 1971...
...As one might expect, she also very effectively evokes the Cheaper by the Dozen ambience of the Schumacher home in Caterham, England, with Fritz testing his intermediate technology in the vegetable garden, and his many children making faces at a much-disliked visiting Buddhist monk in the dining room...
...He drew heavily on Epictetus, Gandhi, St...
...he practiced as- trology and yoga...
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...Unique among economists, Schu-reacher journeyed far into the realms of religion, philosophy, and politics...
...Wood does a fine job explaining her father's economic and philosophical views...
...Must not Christians answer to God someday for ignoring the world's 500 million starving people because we support an administration that spends $1 billion a day on military programs...
...I believe that some bishops who state the abortion issue takes first priority, do not understand that the arms race poses "a situation of extreme and immediate danger...
...715, paper, $6.95 VpT RELICS by Joan Carroll Cruz In this latest book since her popular bestseller, The Incorruptibles, Joan Car- roll Cruz describes, in vivid detail, the stories, history, and theology of Catholic belief surrounding the veneration of many of the major and active relics so re-vered by the Catholic Church...
...Since the Democrats are more cautious and less likely to lead us into nuclear war and show promise of serving the common good better than the Republicans, I am voting for Mondaie and Ferraro~ despite my abhorrence of abortion...
...Correspondence (Continued from page 580) the political campaign has become religion...
...Gen- erally, he seemed to favor a blend of Western politics and Eastern economics, an optimal mix of individual freedom and economic egalitarianism...
...While Reagan has promised to fight to stop two million abortions a year, many people believe he could be the cause of between 20 and 160 million deaths by starting a nuclear war...
...Ignatius Loyola, Ortega y Gasset, and a host of other thinkers...
...A controversial book that should be read by every intelligent Christian...
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...This forthright and hard- hitting book depicts anti-Cathofic senti-ment from colonial times to the present day...
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...Hunger has killed more people in the ,past five years than have been killed in all the wars, revolutions, and murders in the past 150 years...
Vol. 111 • November 1984 • No. 19
