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E. F. Schumacher

1911 - 1977

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Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. E. F. Schumacher is the 224th most popular economist (down from 218th in 2019), the 3,256th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,091st in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, E. F. Schumacher ranks 224 out of 414. Before him are David D. Friedman, Mancur Olson, Henry Hazlitt, William Baumol, Martín de Azpilcueta, and Bertrand de Jouvenel. After him are Ferdinando Galiani, Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Jon Elster, Paul Romer, Peter Senge, and Hyman Minsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, E. F. Schumacher ranks 154. Before him are Otakar Vávra, Mirzo Tursunzoda, Marta Hillers, John C. Woods, Abderrahmane Farès, and Clara Rockmore. After him are Ljubiša Broćić, Peter van Eyck, Theodore Romzha, Kukrit Pramoj, Paul Carell, and Juan Carlos Zabala. Among people deceased in 1977, E. F. Schumacher ranks 118. Before him are Dietrich von Hildebrand, Alexander Tcherepnin, Mwambutsa IV of Burundi, Henri Langlois, Mirzo Tursunzoda, and Rudolf Vytlačil. After him are Lūcija Garūta, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Rózsa Péter, Martí Ventolrà, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, and Louis Beel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, E. F. Schumacher ranks 3,258 out of 7,253. Before him are Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1787), Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1644), Hans-Joachim Stuck (1951), Prince Johann Georg of Saxony (1869), Jakob Friedrich Fries (1773), and Ernst I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1794). After him are Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1869), Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1897), Julius Röntgen (1855), Hans-Jochen Vogel (1926), Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia (1128), and Alfred Schwarzmann (1912).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, E. F. Schumacher ranks 23. Before him are Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Ernest Mandel (1923), Ernst Engel (1821), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Walter Eucken (1891), and Lujo Brentano (1844). After him are Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Adam Müller (1779), Andreas Kaplan (1977), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), and Jörg Meuthen (1961).

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