Ernst friedrich fritz schumacher biography for kids

Quick facts for kids E. F. Schumacher
Photograph of Schumacher from the cover of Small Is Beautiful, 1973
Born	Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (1911-08-16)16 August 1911 Bonn, German Empire
Died	4 September 1977(1977-09-04) (aged 66) Switzerland
Education	University of Oxford Columbia University
Occupation	Economist

Ernst Friedrich SchumacherCBE (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.

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.

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