SMALL IS BEAUTIF UL Economics as if People Mattered E.F SCHUMACHER # HarperPerennial mn of HaeperCollinePublisheegee Be ere Contents Preface to the 1989 Edition by John McClaughry Preface to the 1989 Edition by Kirkpatrick Sale Introduction by Theodore Roszak PARTI THE MODERN WORLD ‘The Problem of Production Peace and Permanence The Role of Economics Buddhist Economics A Question of Size PART II RESOURCES The Greatest Resource—Education The Proper Use of Land Resources for Industry Nuclear Energy—Salvation or Damnation? ‘Technology with a Human Face ie xvii 13. 23 42 56 67 83. 108 125 142 155we PART II THE THIRD WORLD Development 173 Social and Economic Problems Calling for the Development of Intermediate Technology 181 Two Million Villages 202 The Problem of Unemployment in India 218 PART IV ORGANISATION AND OWNERSHIP ‘A Machine to Foretell the Future? 237 ‘Towards a Theory of Large-Scale Organisation 257 Socialism 271 Ownership 279 New Patterns of Ownership 290 Epilogue 313 Notes and Acknowledgments 319