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Ernst Friedrich Schumacher CBE (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a German-British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies. [1] .
E.F. Schumacher was a German-born British economist who developed the concepts of “intermediate technology” and “small is beautiful.” As a German Rhodes scholar in the early 1930s, E.F. Schumacher studied at the University of Oxford and Columbia University.
E. F. Schumacher. Ernst Friedrich Schumacher was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician, and economist in Britain. His ideas became popularized in much of the English-speaking world during the 1970s.
Jun 30, 2021 · E.F. Schumacher’s philosophy focussed on small, simple and sustainable development and economics – or ‘economics as if people mattered’ – feeling that contemporary economic systems were unsustainable. Instead, economic systems should benefit all, rather than a select few.
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher.
Since its founding in 1980 the Schumacher Center for a New Economics has been preserving and building upon the lifework of the German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher. Because of his opposition to Hitler, Schumacher left Germany before the Second World War and spent the rest of his life in England, where he was a pioneer in integrated ...
German-born economist and conservationist, known mainly for his book Small is Beautiful (1973), a critique of western methods of mass production and specialization. Schumacher studied economics at New College, Oxford, coming to the UK with a Rhodes scholarship.
