ECONOMIST

E. F. Schumacher

1911 - 1977

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Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of E. F. Schumacher has received more than 586,839 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). E. F. Schumacher is the 218th most popular economist (up from 220th in 2019), the 3,091st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,023rd in 2019) and the 22nd most popular German Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, E. F. Schumacher ranks 218 out of 414. Before him are Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Ferdinando Galiani, Grigory Yavlinsky, Peter Senge, Mancur Olson, and William Baumol. After him are Giovanni Arrighi, Chester Barnard, Adam Müller, Martín de Azpilcueta, Nassau William Senior, and Olivier Blanchard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, E. F. Schumacher ranks 145. Before him are Gabriel Almond, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Son Sann, Anatoly Rybakov, Marta Hillers, and Hervé Bazin. After him are Rafael Arnaiz Barón, Ljubiša Broćić, Hans von Ohain, Nello Pagani, Abderrahmane Farès, and José María Arguedas. Among people deceased in 1977, E. F. Schumacher ranks 118. Before him are Diana Hyland, Mirzo Tursunzoda, Kōichi Kido, Jan-Carl Raspe, Ronnie Van Zant, and Rudolf Vytlačil. After him are Isaac Boleslavsky, Hans Erich Nossack, Sumitranandan Pant, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Bobojon Ghafurov, and István Avar.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, E. F. Schumacher ranks 3,091 out of 7,253. Before him are Nico Rosberg (1985), Max Wünsche (1914), Johannes Lingelbach (1622), Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1620), Frederick William, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1819), and Theodor Meynert (1833). After him are Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (1759), Roland Matthes (1950), Cornelia Froboess (1943), Max von Oppenheim (1860), and Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1800).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, E. F. Schumacher ranks 22. Before him are Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Gustav von Schmoller (1838), Ernst Engel (1821), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Walter Eucken (1891), and Lujo Brentano (1844). After him are Adam Müller (1779), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), and Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842).

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