Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems. — 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
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations… — 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
Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics… — 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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