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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
E. F. Schumacher
Born: August 19, 1911
Died: August 19, 1977 (aged 66)
Bio: Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades.
Known for:
- Small Is Beautiful (1973)
- A Guide for the Perplexed (1977)
- This I Believe: And Other Essays
- Schumacher on energy
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