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A Pair of Cranks
A Compendium of Essays by Two of the Most Influential and Challenging Authors of the 20th Century
A series of stimulating essays by Leopold Kohr and Fritz Schumacher, originally published in Resurgence or Fourth World Review. Kohr was the first to insist on the importance of appropriate scale more than 20 years before the publication of Small is Beautiful in the early 1970s. The editor John Papworth observes that earlier radical thought neglected the scale factor, and indeed that it is still largely ignored today, especially with the mindset of economies of scale. The book is a very good way of making the