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Small is beautiful : economics as if people mattered / E.F. Schumacher ; foreword by Bill McKibben.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Harper Perennial, 2010.Edition: 1st Harper Perennial edDescription: xvi, 324 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780061997761
  • 0061997765
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HB 171 .S384 2010
Contents:
The problem of production -- Peace and permanence -- The role of economics -- Buddhist economics -- A question of size -- The greatest resource -- education -- The proper use of land -- Resources for industry -- Nuclear energy -- salvation or damnation? -- Technology with a human face -- Development -- Social and economic problems calling for the development of intermediate technology -- Two million villages -- The problem of unemployment in India -- A machine to foretell the future? -- Towards a theory of large-scale organisation -- Socialism -- Ownership -- New patterns of ownership.

"This book was originally published by Blond & Briggs Ltd., London, in 1973"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-324).

The problem of production -- Peace and permanence -- The role of economics -- Buddhist economics -- A question of size -- The greatest resource -- education -- The proper use of land -- Resources for industry -- Nuclear energy -- salvation or damnation? -- Technology with a human face -- Development -- Social and economic problems calling for the development of intermediate technology -- Two million villages -- The problem of unemployment in India -- A machine to foretell the future? -- Towards a theory of large-scale organisation -- Socialism -- Ownership -- New patterns of ownership.

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