Nov. 20 -- — Michael Fletcher says he was in the bathroom of his suburban Detroit home when he heard a gunshot go off in the bedroom. There, he says, he found his 29-year-old wife, Leann ...

Back then he was proclaiming his devotion to the ideas of a British economist named E. F. Schumacher, who in 1973 published a collection of essays called Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People ...