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Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich
Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher (1911–77) is an interesting figure in political thought because of his unique blend of modern progressive concerns with a traditional conception of human nature. He is best known for his pioneering work in development economics, focusing on intermediate technologies and human-scale economies, and his concerns about overdependence on nonrenewable resources and pollution that he presented before the public in his magnum opus, Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (1973). His thoughts about economics and the environment were grounded in a traditionalist epistemology and conception of human nature that he articulated in A Guide for the Perplexed (1978). Schumacher’s vision of the economic problem as a problem of morality rather than of scarcity places him outside of the mainstream of ...
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