E. F. Schumacher

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
Nationality	British
Academic career
Institution	University of Oxford Columbia University
Alma mater	University of Bonn University of Berlin New College, Oxford Columbia University
Contributions	Appropriate technology Buddhist economics

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher CBE (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.^[1] 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.^[2] 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.