Reading Schedule

The reading schedule for Small is Beautiful (1973) will be somewhat flexible, kicking things off with chapter one at the beginning of July. A post (and discussion) will be devoted to each chapter, with different people initiating them each time. Following my first entry a few days after July 4th, the goal will be for each new post to a week or so after the previous one. Considering there are 19 chapters total, that should have us wrapping things up sometime in the fall.

Here's the schedule then, currently updated through Part II of the book:

Part I - The Modern World

Ch. 1 - "The Problem of Production" - Chris
Ch. 2 - "Peace and Permanence" - Michelle
Ch. 3 - "The Role of Economics" - Steve
Ch. 4 - "Buddhist Economics" - Ben
Ch. 5 - "A Question of Size" - Eric

Part II - Resources

Ch. 6 - "The Greatest Resource - Education" - Mike
Ch. 7 - "The Proper Use of Land" - Chris
Ch. 8 - "Resources for Industry" - Michelle
Ch. 9 - "Nuclear Energy - Salvation or Damnation?" - Steve
Ch. 10 - "Technology with a Human Face" - Ben

Part III - The Third World

Ch. 11 - "Development" - Eric
Ch. 12 - "Social and Economic Problems Calling for the Development of Intermediate Technology" - Mike
Ch. 13 - "Two Million Villages" -
Ch. 14 - "The Problem of Unemployment in India" -

Part IV - Organization and Ownership

Ch. 15 - "A Machine to Foretell the Future?" -
Ch. 16 - "Towards a Theory of Large-Scale Organization" -
Ch. 17 - "Socialism" -
Ch. 18 - "Ownership" -
Ch. 19 - "New Patterns of Ownership" -

Epilogue -