Schumacher
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In the texts, Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher and Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin both authors propose their believed ideals by which all people should live by. The two authors contrast in the same manner that pure science and social sciences differ. Hardin looks at the 'Population problem' with such headlines as 'Freedom to Breed Is Intolerable', which sends the reader a bold message of bitterness. Hardin seems to detach himself from the human race as he criticizes our behaviour. That in-itself is a scientific method for science always attempts to remove the coercive nature of the human spirit. Schumacher on the other hand attempts to bring a spiritual aspect to the limiting scope of economics by stating, "The stillness following liberation produces the insights of wisdom which enable us to see the hollowness and fundamental unsatisfactoriness of a life devoted primarily to the pursuit of material ends, to the neglect of the spiritual" (Schumacher, 39). Ultimately the two authors are trying the give an answer to the same problem using their own meta-economics and meta-ethics...