“Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered” by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) is a book on how the development of economics should empower people and communities.
In 1995 The Times Literary Supplement ranked Small Is Beautiful among the 100 most influential books published since 1945.
Please read it, you can find it on second hand book sites for next to nothing.
https://www.schumacherinstitute.org.uk/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful