E. F. Schumacher
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E. F. Schumacher

Statistician and Economist, Germany/United Kingdom

E. F. Schumacher

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher was a German-British statistician and economist, known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralized and appropriate technologies. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board and founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group. His influential work, 'Small Is Beautiful', was published in 1973.

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Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911 – 1977) was a German-British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralized and appropriate technologies. 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. His most influential work, ‘Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered‘, was published in 1973.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one’s independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear.

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