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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-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 553,526 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). E. F. Schumacher is the 222nd most popular economist (down from 194th in 2019), the 3,026th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,676th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Economist.

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

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  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, E. F. Schumacher ranks 222 out of 315. Before him are Martín de Azpilcueta, Roy Harrod, Nassau William Senior, David D. Friedman, Jon Elster, and Benjamin Tucker. After him are Henry Hazlitt, Giovanni Arrighi, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, George Shultz, Fritz Machlup, and Colin Clark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, E. F. Schumacher ranks 138. Before him are John C. Woods, Hervé Bazin, Gabriel Almond, Leah Goldberg, Mark Bernes, and Allan Pettersson. After him are George Seaton, Yang Jiang, Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Abderrahmane Farès, Nello Pagani, and Pierre Harmel. Among people deceased in 1977, E. F. Schumacher ranks 115. Before him are Alexander Tcherepnin, Henri Langlois, Rudolf Vytlačil, István Avar, Scott Bradley, and Alphonse Massamba-Débat. After him are Jan-Carl Raspe, Luigi Bertolini, Louis Beel, Eve Meyer, Alice Paul, and Mirzo Tursunzoda.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, E. F. Schumacher ranks 3,026 out of 6,142. Before him are Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1880), H.P. Baxxter (1964), Oliver Riedel (1971), Lilli Lehmann (1848), Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1892), and Bernd Eichinger (1949). After him are Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel (1804), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Rainald of Dassel (1114), Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1725), Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703), and Walter Hohmann (1880).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Germany

Among economists born in Germany, E. F. Schumacher ranks 24. Before him are Hans-Hermann Hoppe (1949), Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Walter Eucken (1891), Lujo Brentano (1844), Adam Müller (1779), and Albert O. Hirschman (1915). After him are Johann Karl Rodbertus (1805), Étienne Laspeyres (1834), Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher (1817), Georg Friedrich Knapp (1842), Theodore Levitt (1925), and Jörg Meuthen (1961).

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