Small Is Beautiful_ A Study of Economics.epub

C ONTENTS Cover About the Author By E. F. Schumacer Introduction Part I THE MODERN WORLD 1 The Problem of Production 2 Peace and Permanence 3 The Role of Economics 4 Buddhist Economics 5 A Question of Size Part II RESOURCES 6 The Greatest Resource – Education 7 The Proper Use of Land 8 Resources for Industry 9 Nuclear Energy – Salvation or Damnation? 10 Technology with a Human Face Part III THE THIRD WORLD 11 Development 12 Social and Economic Problems Calling for the Development of Intermediate Technology 13 Two Million Villages 14 The Problem of Unemployment in India Part IV ORGANISATION AND OWNERSHIP 15 A Machine to Foretell the Future 16 Towards a Theory of Large-Scale Organisation 17 Socialism 18 Ownership 19 New Patterns of Ownership Epilogue Notes and Acknowledgments Further Information Copyright A BOUT THE A UTHOR Before the publication of Small is Beautiful , his best-selling reappraisal of Western economic attitudes, Dr E. F. Schumacher was already well known as an economist, journalist and progressive entrepreneur. He was Economic Adviser to the National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970, and was also the origi......