Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1978

Original language

English

Director

Douglas Kiefer,Donald Brittain,Barrie Howells

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0203919