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Ernst F. Schumacher (German-British statistician and economist)

  • Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
  • E. F. Schumacher
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Schumacher, Ernst F.
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Date of birth
1911-08-16
Place of birth
Bonn
Date of death
1977-09-04
Place of death
Switzerland

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Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised 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.

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. In 1977 he published A Guide for the Perplexed as a critique of materialistic scientism and as an exploration of the nature and organisation of knowledge.

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Goodreads Author ID
4615523
ISNI
0000 0001 0913 5081
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OpenLibrary Author ID
OL178092A
VIAF
71397591
Wikidata ID
Q76526

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