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The idea of "Small Is Beautiful" can be expressed in any media, from miniature to 2 sq-ft or 288 sq-in or 12 inches each direction for 3 dimentional works. Artworks larger pay an oversize fee. Minimum submission 3 pieces. You'll pay $14/piece only if you show your work, there's no submission fee.  Small Is Beautiful "Economics As If People Mattered" A book by E. F. Schumacher, published in 70s responding to emerging globalization. Schumacher was for 20 years the Chief Economic Advisor to the National Coal Board in the United Kingdom. He was one of the first economists to question the appropriateness of using GNP to measure human well being, emphasizing that “the aim ought to be to obtain the maximum amount of well being with the minimum amount of consumption.” Schumacher's work coincided with the growth of ecological concerns and with the birth of environmentalism, which is a movement centered around ecology, health, and human rights. It demands the sustainable management of resources and protection of the natural environment through changes in public and individual behavior. Schumacher said:"[A modern economist] is used to measuring the 'standard of living' by the amount of annual consumption, assuming all the time that a man who consumes more is 'better off' than a man who consumes less. A Buddhist economist would consider this approach excessively irrational: since consumption is merely a means to human well-being, the aim should be to obtain the maximum of well-being with the minimum of consumption. The less toil there is, the more time and strength is left for artistic creativity. Modern economics, on the other hand, considers consumption to be the sole end and purpose of all economic activity." ….. "It is clear, therefore, that Buddhist economics must be very different from the economics of modern materialism, since the Buddhist sees the essence of civilisation not in a multiplication of wants but in the purification of human character. Character, at the same time, is formed primarily by a man's work. And work, properly conducted in conditions of human dignity and freedom, blesses those who do it and equally their products.”
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