"free-market capitalist, as opposed to predominantly corporate capitalist culture we see ruling the roost at present, like it or loath it. (I could get into a discussion about the free market v central planning, but actually I see a number of alternatives out there being developed, or rediscovered, that offer escape from the binary choices which have caused so much misery to millions over the centuries." Hmmm I did make the point that the "market economy" is to blame, I don't believe that there is the kind "soft-out" that you imply. Schumachianism is not; "central planning"....it comes from the resource base any informs all parts of the economy including the social and communal, public ownership is limited to those areas where the resource dictates that its management must be so for "the greater good"...private ownership also informs this greater good but must be balanced by "able and equal" communal and societal activity..Max does not accept this...Schumacher's is a dynamic economy where "cross pollination" between the systems ensures growth..but not profit-centred growth rather a growth of sustainability and diversity....it is an emancipating philosophy that believes that we should work to live not live to work and that only by freeing ourselves from the terrible war of all against all can humankind ever free to be able to realise its full potential....