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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
E. F. Schumacher
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E. F. Schumacher
Age: 66 †
Born: 1911
Born: August 16
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Economist
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Bonn
Germany
Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
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