The term was used in his essay named "Buddhist Economics", which was first published in 1966 in Asia: A Handbook, and republished in his influential collection Small Is Beautiful (1973).
استخدم هذا المصطلح لأول مرة في مقاله بعنوان "علم الاقتصاد البوذيّ" والذي نُشر لأول مرة في 1966 في "آسيا: كُتيِّب Asia: A Handbook" وأعيد نشره في مجموعته المؤثرة "الصغير جميل Small Is Beautiful" 1973.