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Overview
ONE OF THE MOST fateful errors of our age is the belief that "the problem of production" has been solved.Synopsis
**Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered** is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher. The title "Small Is Beautiful" came from a principle espoused by Schumacher’s teacher Leopold Kohr (1909–1994) advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a superior alternative to the mainstream ethos of "bigger is better". Overlapping environmental, social, and economic forces such as the 1973 energy 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 most influential books published since World War II. A further edition with commentaries was published in 1999. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful))Book Details
Published
May 28, 2026
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Pages
352
ISBN
9780061997761