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Small is beautiful : economics as if people mattered / E.F. Schumacher.
LIBRA - Special HB171 .S384 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schumacher, E. F. (Ernst Friedrich), 1911-1977.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 324 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperPerennial, 1989.
- Summary:
- Essays on economic theory and principles provide guidance for living and surviving in the modern world.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The modern world. The problem of production
- Peace and permanence
- The role of economics
- Buddhist economics
- A question of size
- pt. 2. Resources. The greatest resource : education
- The proper use of land
- Resources for industry
- Nuclear energy : salvation or damnation?
- Technology with a human face
- pt. 3. The third world. Development
- Social and economic problems calling for the development of intermediate technology
- Two million villages
- The problem of unemployment in India
- pt. 4. Organisation and ownership. A machine to foretell the future?
- Towards a theory of large-scale organisation
- Socialism
- Ownership
- New patterns of ownership.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: London : Blond and Briggs, 1973. With two new prefaces.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-324).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is irregular copy: missing title page, p.1-8.; begins with p.9 with no blank front pages.
- ISBN:
- 0060916303
- 9780060916305
- OCLC:
- 19514463
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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