E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (died 1977)

E. F. Schumacher

British statistician and economist (1911–1977)

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher 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…