Small Is Beautiful

by Schumacher, E. F.

• ISBN13: 9780060916305
• ISBN10: 0060916303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-18
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

The classic of common-sense economics. "Enormously broad in scope, pithily weaving together threads from Galbraith and Gandhi, capitalism and Buddhism, science and psychology."-- The New Republic

Author Biography

E.F. Schumacher (1911-1977) was a Rhodes scholar who developed the concept of Intermediate Technology for developing countries. He is best known for his critique of Western economics and his solutions calling for human-scale, decentralized, and appropriate technologies. His legacy continues today in the work of the E.F. Schumacher Society.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 1989 Edition	ix
John McClaughry
Preface to the 1989 Edition	xvii
Kirkpatrick Sale
Introduction	1	(12)
Theodore Roszak
PART I THE MODERN WORLD
The Problem of Production	13	(10)
Peace and Permanence	23	(19)
The Role of Economics	42	(14)
Buddhist Economics	56	(11)
A Question of Size	67	(16)
PART II RESOURCES
The Greatest Resource---Education	83	(25)
The Proper Use of Land	108	(17)
Resources for Industry	125	(17)
Nuclear Energy---Salvation or Damnation?	142	(13)
Technology with a Human Face	155	(18)
PART III THE THIRD WORLD
Development	173	(8)
Social and Economic Problems Calling for the Development of Intermediate Technology	181	(21)
Two Million Villages	202	(16)
The Problem of Unemployment in India	218	(19)
PART IV ORGANISATION AND OWNERSHIP
A Machine to Foretell the Future?	237	(20)
Towards a Theory of Large-Scale Organisation	257	(14)
Socialism	271	(8)
Ownership	279	(11)
New Patterns of Ownership	290	(23)
Epilogue	313	(6)
Notes and Acknowledgments	319