“Small Is [still] Beautiful In Missions”

A recent re-reading of E. F. Schumacher's classic Small is Beautiful: Economics as though People Matter reminded me that while Western socio-economic systems seem to operate on the assumption that the chief end of a human life is to bring glory to the GNP, no religious person–certainly no Chris...

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Main Author: Bonk, Jonathan J. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Sage 1991
In: Transformation
Year: 1991, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-31
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