"This book was originally published by Blond & Briggs Ltd., London, in 1973."--T.p. verso. "First Perennial Library edition published 1975. Reissued 1989. First Harper Perennial edition published 2010."

The problem of production -- Peace and permanence -- The role of economics -- Buddhist economics -- A question of size -- The greatest resource - education -- The proper use of land -- Resources for industry -- Nuclear energy - salvation or damnation? -- Technology with a human face -- Development -- Social and economic problems calling for the development of intermediate technology -- Two million villages -- The problem of unemployment in India -- A machine to foretell the future? -- Towards a theory of large-scale organisation -- Socialism -- Ownership -- New patterns of ownership.