il-002820-9932934263804146-990004810110304146
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has beginning date: 1977-01-01
has end date: 1977-12-31
has or had holder: il-002820
has or had some members with language: eng
identifier: 990004810110304146
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note: 4 newspaper clippings taken from the Sunday Times and The Observer
note: Detailed dates of material: 11.9.1977, 2.10.1977, 6.11.1977
note: illustrations
record resource extent: [4] pages
scope and content: "Dr. Ernst Friedrich"Frit" Schumacher (19 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a German 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 for two decades, 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
title: Ernst Friedrich Schumacher