"The image of the frontier is probably one……" — Kenneth E. Boulding
"The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of."
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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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... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use…
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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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