“Buddhist Economics” was first published in  Asia: A Handbook, edited by Guy Wint, published by Anthony Blond Ltd., London, 1966. John Papworth reprinted it in the January-February, 1968 (Vol. I, No 11) issue of  Resurgence magazine published in England. On August 13, 1969, Henry Geiger gave the essay its first North American printing in his now classic newsletter MANAS (Vol. XXII, No. 33). In 1973 it was collected with other essays by Ernest Friedrich Schumacher in  Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, published by Blond and Briggs, Ltd. In 1974 Harper and Row (www.HarperCollins.com) printed a North American edition of the book, which has been in print ever since. The book went on to be translated into 27 different languages and in 1995 was named by the Times Literary Supplement (London) as one of the hundred most influential books written after World War II.

In 1999 Hartley and Marks Publishers (www.hartleyandmarks.com) of Point Roberts, Washington and Vancouver, published a beautiful twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Small Is Beautiful, available from your independent local bookseller or local library.

Through the kind permission of Vreni Schumacher, in 2001 the E. F. Schumacher Society published "Buddhist Economics" in its pamphlet An Economics of Peace. The pamphlet also includes Wendell Berry's essay "Thoughts in the Presence of Fear" and "A New Peace" by Susan Witt. An Economics of Peace is available for $5 through the Society's Publication Service.


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