E. F. Schumacher Quotes

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher 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 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. 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. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. August 1911 – 4. September 1977

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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

"Small is Beautiful", an essay, in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5 (August 1973), p. 22 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106019678082;view=1up;seq=230

“Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.”

Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973)

“The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.”

Source: Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered (1973), p. 35.

E. F. Schumacher Quotes

“Small is beautiful”

From title Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered
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