Small Is Beautiful Economics as If People Mattered

Name: Small Is Beautiful Economics as If People Mattered
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ISBN: 9780060916305

ISBN-10: 0060916303

ISBN-13: 9780060916305

Edition: Reprint

Authors: E. F. Schumacher, John McLaughrey, Kirpatrick Sale, Schumacher

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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

Book details

List price: $14.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 9/27/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



About the Author


Preface



Introduction




The Modern World



The Problem of Production



Peace and Permanence



The Role of Economics



Buddhist Economics



A Question of Size



Resources



The Greatest Resource--Education



The Proper Use of Land



Resources for Industry



Nuclear Energy--Salvation or Damnation?



Technology with a Human Face



The Third World



Development



Social and Economic Problems Calling for the Development of Intermediate Techology



Two Million Villages



The Problem of Unemployment in India



Organisation and Ownership



A Machine to Foretell the Future?



Towards a Theory of Large-Scale Organisation



Socialism



Ownership



New Patterns of Ownership


Epilogue


Notes and Acknowledgements


Biographies of Contributors


Resources


Index