Small Is Beautiful ( 1973) E. F. Schumacher

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, advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a superior alternative to the mainstream ethos of "bigger is better".