E. F. Schumacher
E. F. Schumacher
Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacherwas an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades. His ideas became popularised in much of the English-speaking world during the 1970s. He is best known for his critique of Western economies and his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth16 August 1911
E. F. Schumacher quotes about
funny-work might income
It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
sacred explanation
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything.