>Fumento! A few years back I stumbled on the book "Small is Beautiful"
>by E. F. Schumacher in a used book store. It's full of ideas that, I
>think, are valuable to anybody in engineering - at least I learned a lot
>from it and what I learned has been very useful to me.
At which point, it seems as apropos as it ever will to suggest that any lbo-ites ever holidaying in the UK might like to drop in at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales. It's a group of people trying to live by Schumacher's ideas, and is a cracking day out for all the family -- if your family is interested in waterwheels and levers & stuff. It's a great place.
dd
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