The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.​ More than any other thinker of the twentieth century, Ivan Illich has challenged institutional bureaucracies and provided a strong voice for small communities. In this lecture, he reflects on Kohr's efforts to lay a foundation for an alternate to economics and traces historic attitudes of proportionality, scale, reasonableness, and economic scarcity.