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 Size

PART- II Resources
6 The Greatest Resources
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 Development of
Intermediate Technology
13 Two Million Villages
14 The Problem of Unemployment in India
15 A Machine to Foretell the Future
16 Towards a Theory of Large- Scale Organization
17 Socialism
18 Ownership
19 New Patterns of Ownership

Small is Beautiful is E F Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of world economies. This remarkable book is as relevant today and its themes as pertinent and thought-provoking as when it was first published thirty years ago. Small is Beautiful looks at the economic structure of the Western world in a revolutionary way. Schumacher maintains that Man's current pursuit of profit and progress, which promotes giant organizations and increased specialization, has in fact resulted in gross economic inefficiency, environmental pollution and inhumane working conditions. Schumacher challenges the doctrine of economic, technological and scientific specialization and proposes a system of Intermediate Technology, based on smaller working units, communal ownership and regional workplaces utilizing local labour and resources.