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    E. F. Schumacher

    British statistician and economist (1911–1977)

    Ernst Friedrich SchumacherCBE (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a German-born British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies.[1] He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970, and founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now known as Practical Action) in 1966.

    In 1995, his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered was ranked by The Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books published since World War II.[2] In 1977 he published A Guide for the Perplexed as a critique of materialisticscientism and as an exploration of the nature and organisation of knowledge.

    Early life

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    Schumacher was born in Bonn, Germany in 1911. His father was a professor of political economy. The younger Schu

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    E. F. Schumacher

    Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was an internationally influential economic thinker, statisticianW and economist in BritainW, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal BoardW for two decades.[1] His ideas became popularized in much of the English-speaking worldW during the 1970s. He is best known for his critique of Western economies and his proposals for human-scale, decentralized and appropriate technologies. According to The Times Literary SupplementW, his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: a study of economics as if people mattered is among the 100 most influential books published since World War IIW.[2] and was soon translated into many languages, bringing him international fame. Schumacher's basic development theoriesW have been summed up in the catch-phrases Intermediate SizeW and Intermediate Technology. In 1977 he published A Guide for the Perplexed as a c

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    Ernst Friedrich Schumacher

    1911-1977

    British Economist

    EF. Schumacher was an economist who argued that Earth could not afford the cultural and environmental costs accompanying large-scale capitalism. His book Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered was named one of the most influential books published since World War II by the London Times Literary Supplement. It also made Schumacher a människor hero on the political left. Although Schumacher died in the 1970s, his opposition to excessive consumption, corporate herravälde, and growth for its own sake is echoed in the "simple living" movement of the late 1990s.

    Schumacher, called Fritz bygd those who knew him, was born on August 16, 1911, in stad i tyskland, Germany, into an academic family. After attending the universities of Berlin and Bonn, he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and also at Columbia University in New York. In 1937, appalled by the rise of Nazism in Germany, he settled in England. As a German national d