E. F. Schumacher
Economist and statistician
E. F. Schumacher was a German-born British economist and statistician who argued for human-scale, decentralised technology. He wrote Small is Beautiful.
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Born 1911 in Bonn, Germany Died 1977
About E. F. Schumacher
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911 to 1977) was a German-born British statistician and economist. Between 1950 and 1970 he held the top economic advisory post at the British National Coal Board. In 1966 he founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group, now called Practical Action. His 1973 book Small is Beautiful has the subtitle A Study of Economics As If People Mattered. In 1995 The Times Literary Supplement placed it on its list of the 100 most influential books since the Second World War. In 1977 he also published A Guide for the Perplexed, a critique of materialistic scientism.