Barbara Ward

He worked with Barbara Ward to found the International Institute for Environment and Development and directed both its London and Washington offices.

Contributor: David Runnalls 2010

Thirty years ago, economist Barbara Ward appealed for the world's people to develop a sense of planetary responsibility and a shared commitment to simultaneously improve the wellbeing of the earth's disadvantaged peoples and the environment.

No Going It Alone in the 21st Century 2007

Or rather, at the most, there is one difference: with those who have already received Christianity, our witness has to be much stronger and more powerful, because, as Barbara Ward says, “men rarely learn what they think they already know.”

Archive 2007-05-01 Fred 2007

The following day's edition of The Times carried a tribute by Barbara Ward, whose book The Home of Man, published the previous year and written for the United Nations 1976 Conference in Vancouver on Human Settlements, was a reiteration of the principles Schumacher held so dear.

The Education of E. F. Schumacher 2007

Or rather, at the most, there is one difference: with those who have already received Christianity, our witness has to be much stronger and more powerful, because, as Barbara Ward says, “men rarely learn what they think they already know.”

"Men rarely learn what they think they already know." ~Barbara Ward Fred 2007

When Schumacher's Small is Beautiful was published in 1973 it seemed to synthesize and epitomize all that Barbara Ward and the other 'experts' had been saying the previous year at the United Nations Conference.

The Education of E. F. Schumacher 2007

Thirty years ago, economist Barbara Ward appealed for the world's people to develop a sense of planetary responsibility and a shared commitment to simultaneously improve the wellbeing of the earth's disadvantaged peoples and the environment.

No Going It Alone in the 21st Century 2007

Among those giving lectures at the UN Conference in Stockholm was Barbara Ward whose advocacy of distributist solutions to the world's problems went back to before the war.

The Education of E. F. Schumacher 2007

During the expansive half century that has passed since the late British economist Barbara Ward delivered the first Massey Lectures, on the subject of rich and poor nations, the annual five-part series has become an institutionalized treat for those I will presume to call "thinking" Canadians.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed REVIEWED BY CHARLES WILKINS 2011

A shifting constellation of the best and the brightest, its members included Barbara Ward, EH Carr, Sebastian Haffner Raimund Pretzel, Isaac Deutscher, John Strachey and, most notably, George Orwell.

The Guardian World News Robert McCrum 2011