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 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]
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