Henry Vaughan
Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher 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 Groupin 1966.
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About the E. F. Schumacher
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher 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 Groupin 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. In 1977 he published A Guide for the Perplexed as a critique of materialistic scientism and as an exploration of the nature and organisation of knowledge.
8 Quotes by E. F. Schumacher
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
E. F. SchumacherBritish economist
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. SchumacherBritish economist
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. SchumacherBritish economist
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
E. F. SchumacherBritish economist
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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.
E. F. SchumacherBritish economist
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
E. F. SchumacherBritish economist
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You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.
E. F. SchumacherBritish economist