"As long as man was small in numbers……" — Kenneth E. Boulding
"As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source of inputs and an infinite cesspool for outputs. Today we can no longer make this assumption. Earth has become a space ship, not only in our imagination but also in the hard realities of the social, biological, and physical system in which man is enmeshed."
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Kenneth E. Boulding
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25 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding
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Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
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Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of…
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With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic.
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Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
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