biography
| name: |
Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich
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pronunciation:
[shoomaker]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1911–77)
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| biography:
| German economist. He was interned in Britain while studying as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford at the outbreak of World War 2. After the war he served as economic adviser to the British Control Commission in Germany (1946–50), and with the National Coal Board (1950–70). His concern for the Third World was expressed in his book Small Is Beautiful (1973), in which he argued that capitalism brought living standards at the cost of deteriorating culture, and that, because the earth's limited resources should be conserved, large industries and large cities could not be afforded. He founded the Intermediate Technology Group to develop tools and ideas appropriate to the culture and traditions of the people using them. |
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