Small Is Beautiful


Small Is Beautiful: A discussing of Economics As if People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist Leopold Kohr 1909–1994 advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, as well as polities as a superior option to the mainstream ethos of "bigger is better".

Overlapping environmental, social, and economic forces such(a) as the 1973 power crisis and popularisation of the concept of globalisation helped bring Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful critiques of mainstream economics to a wider audience during the 1970s. In 1995 The Times Literary Supplement ranked Small Is Beautiful among the 100 almost influential books published since World War II. A further edition with commentaries was published in 1999.

Synopsis


Small Is Beautiful is divided up into four parts: "The sophisticated World", "Resources", "The Third World", and "Organization and Ownership".