“Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations: as long as you have not shown it to be 'uneconomic' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.”

— E. F. Schumacher

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About E. F. Schumacher

Economist • British

Ernst Friedrich 'Fritz' Schumacher was a German-born British statistician and economist, renowned for his proposals on human-scale, decentralized, and appropriate technologies. His 1973 book 'Small Is Beautiful: A Study...

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