Packet 12: Tossup 12

This quality ends the title of a 2024 essay collection that claims “more is more” contra Marie Kondo and is by Becca Rothfield. Homes and communities with this quality (15[1])have been respectively promoted by Sarah Susanka and Leopold Kohr. This is the first title quality of a book that suggests “Buddhist Economics” as a middle way between growth and stagnation. An essay partly titled for this quality addresses “you,” who become “an ugly person” when you arrive on an island by plane. An (*) E. F. Schumacher book claims this quality “is beautiful.” Escalante Village, Colorado markets eco-friendly, low-cost houses in a style named for this quality, which often have just a single room. For 10 points, a Jamaica Kincaid essay calls Antigua a place with what quality, which also describes businesses with fewer than 100 employees? ■END■

ANSWER: small [or tiny; accept word forms such as smallness; accept synonyms such as little or miniature; accept small houses, small homes, tiny houses or tiny homes; accept small businesses; accept not so big; accept A Small Place; accept Small Is Beautiful; accept The Not So Big House; accept All Things Are Too Small; Essays in Praise of Excess]
<HA, Other Academic> | NAFTA-Packet-12
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzzpointValue
Taylor HarveyMuscle Mass Extinction EventIndiana2815

Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20251100%100%0%28.00