"... if the society toward which we are……" — Kenneth E. Boulding
"... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products."
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Kenneth E. Boulding
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25 Quotes by Kenneth E. Boulding
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The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment…
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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians.…
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The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human…
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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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Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and…
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Humble, honest, ignorance is one of the finest flowers of the human spirit
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As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an…
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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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The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship,…
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Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
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