levo
Log inStart

Ecologism

Schumacher, Bookchin and Merchant

  • 3 things to know
  • Component 2

Overview

Recall questions on Schumacher's Buddhist economics, Bookchin on social hierarchy as the root of ecological crisis, and Merchant on nature and gender oppression.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

Your recallNot started
Who and when

Which thinker developed the concept of Buddhist economics, and how did he describe it?

Who and when

What solution did Bookchin propose to resolve the environmental crisis?

Who and when

What did Bookchin argue societies should learn from ecology?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    Which thinker developed the concept of Buddhist economics, and how did he describe it?

    Model answer

    E. F. Schumacher developed it, describing it as economics as if people mattered.

  2. 2

    What is the central aim of Schumacher's Buddhist economics?

    Model answer

    To achieve maximum human wellbeing with minimum consumption.

  3. 3

    How does Schumacher's Buddhist economics challenge the assumptions of traditional economic growth models?

    Model answer

    It rejects the prioritisation of material goods and consumption, instead aiming for maximum human wellbeing with minimum consumption and valuing human creative activity over materialism.

  4. 4

    What fallacy did Schumacher identify in traditional economics?

    Model answer

    That production is treated as the point of economic life and people as a means to it.

  5. 5

    According to Schumacher, what does traditional economics wrongly prioritise over human creative activity?

    Model answer

    Materialism.

  6. 6

    What did Murray Bookchin identify as the root cause of the environmental crisis?

    Model answer

    Existing social structures of oppression.

See the rest and revise

Other ways to work this

The same content, four other ways.

What is inside Levo

Six ways to work the same material.

1Closed book
2Open book
3Closed book

The 3-step method, run for you

Answer cold, learn it, then prove it stuck. Levo tracks the jump between your first attempt and your last.

Democracy and Participation
Political Parties
Electoral Systems
Voting Behaviour and the Media

Cram a whole paper in one sitting

Sort every topic into what you know and what you do not, then drill only the weak ones.

Bhikhu Parekh ( –).
193519952000

Blank Blitz makes facts automatic

Rapid timed gap-fills on the terms and numbers you need to recall without thinking.

ACitizens elect representatives to govern on their behalf.
BRepresentatives are accountable through free, regular elections.
CGovernment is carried out through parties and Parliament.

Build It gets the exam shape right

Assemble a full-mark answer from its marking points, in the order an examiner wants them.

Patriotism means attachment to one’s country.
TrueFalse

Test It catches misconceptions

Spot the fault in a statement. The traps are the mistakes students actually make.

721941163128510

Brain Breaks between sessions

Short focus games to reset attention, so the next set lands better than the last.

Every question in Ecologism, on a schedule.

Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.

Start revising, £5 a monthSee how the method works

Or £46 a year, about £3.83 a month. Cancel anytime.