Small is Beautiful

Author: Schumacher, E.F.
Title: Small is Beautiful
Year: 1973
Publisher: Blond and Briggs

Contents Page:

Part 1; The Modern World
1 The Problem of Production 10
2 Peace and Permanence 19
3 The Role of Economics 36
4 Buddhist Economics 48
5 A Question of Size 57

Part 2; Resources
1 The Greatest Resource - Education 70
2 The Proper Use of Land 93
3 Resources for Industry 108
4 Nuclear Energy - Salvation or Damnation? 124
5 Technology with a Human Face 136

Part 3; The Third World
1 Development 152
2 Social and Economic Problems Calling for the Development of Intermediate Technology 159
3 Two Million Villages 178
4 The Problem of Unemployment in India 192

Part 4; Organisation and Ownership
1 A Machine to Foretell the Future? 208
2 Towards a Theory of Large-Scale Organisation 225
3 Socialism 237
4 Ownership 244
5 New Patterns of Ownership 254

Epilogue 275
Notes and Acknowledgements 281