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scale-and-appropriateness critic who asks whether technology fits local skills, capital, ecology, ownership, and human… · 1911–1977 CE
E. F. Schumacher is represented within 1911–1977 CE and British economic planning, postwar development debate, and appropriate-technology movements. Historicity classification: documented historical economist and writer.


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An Impossible Panel episode. Employee 404 works every hour, takes no lunch break and pays no tax. Karl Marx, Adam Smith, B. R. Ambedkar, E. F. Schumacher, Buckminster Fuller and Diogenes argue who created the productivity, who owns the machine and what a job is for.
A proposed Switch Sides debate about autonomy, collaboration and different kinds of work. Vote to help shape the shortlist; this is not a confirmed episode.