E F Schumacher
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Ernst Friedrich Schumacher. (1911 - 1977). German statistician and economist.
Noteworthy
- Human-scale.
- Decentralised.
- Appropriate technologies.
- He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board for two decades, and founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group in 1966.
- Book: Small is Beautiful: Economics as If People Mattered (1973).
- Ranked by The Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books published since World War II.
