Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[In science any model depends on a pre-chosen taxonomy] a set of classifications into which we divide the enormous complexity of the real world...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there? — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
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