Kenneth Boulding [electronic resource] : A Voice Crying in the Wilderness /
Scott, R.author.
This book summarizes the life and work of economist Kenneth E. Boulding. Boulding was a prolific writer, teacher and Quaker. Starting his career as an orthodox Keynesian economist, he eventually adopted a transdisciplinary approach to economic topics including peace, conflict and defense, environmental problems, human betterment and evolution.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 An Introduction to Boulding; 2 The Day the Liberals Won; Bouldings and Rowes; Baby Boulding Boy; Pacifist Born; Quaker Beginnings; Mark of the English Gentleman; Good-Byes; New College, Oxford; 3 Mr. Boulding and the Americans; Quaker Writings; Economic Analysis; Quavering Pacifism; Elise; Elise in Brief; League of Nations; Fisk; The Hawkeye State; Liquidity Preference; The Draft; Quaker Poet; North; Disarmament and Disillusion; Psychic Capital; From Hawkeye to Wolverine; 4 Cosmogenesis; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Within a Budding Grove
Boulding's CosmogenesisReligion, Ethics, and Society; A Causal Shift; A Golden State of Mind; Image Is Everything; Society for General Systems Research; Center for Research on Conflict Resolution; So Much Trouble in the World; Bessie; Conflict Resolution in Action; Land of the Rising Sun; Spaceship Earth; A Final Move; 5 Where the Buffalo Roam; Boulder Bound Bouldings; A Difficult Move; Institute of Behavioral Science; Milorg; Peace Starts at Home; Grants Economics; Chicago or Bust; Presidential Address; Quaker Writings; Of Machines and Men; Truth; The Artist; The Professor; Manifesto
Retirement6 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness; Early 1980s; Technology Review; Large Systems; Vietnam; Nous; Apotheosis; Betting Man; Edsel's Law; Taxing; Fructal; Moral High Road; A++; Image and Technology; On the Other Hand; Dutch; Pelican Party; Government for All; The World as a Total System; Human Betterment; What Went Wrong with Economics; Power; Futurist Studies; Golden Anniversary; Sonnets en Mass; Death; Last Diary Entry; Afterlife; 7 Boulding's Place in Economic History; Peace and Conflict Resolution; Spaceship Earth; Boulding's Legacy; Postscript; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book summarizes the life and work of economist Kenneth E. Boulding. Boulding was a prolific writer, teacher and Quaker. Starting his career as an orthodox Keynesian economist, he eventually adopted a transdisciplinary approach to economic topics including peace, conflict and defense, environmental problems, human betterment and evolution.
Boulding, Kenneth E. (Kenneth Ewart), 1910-1993.
Economic history.
Economic theory.
World history.
Economic History.
History of Economic Thought/Methodology.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
World History, Global and Transnational History.