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• It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely mathematical skill but a sensitivity to the relative importance of different factors and a critical, almost an artistic, faculty in the selection of behaviour equations which are reasonable, tentative hypotheses in explaining the behaviour of actual economies.

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  Order, Skills, Different

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, pp. 16-17, 1958.

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• [The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

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  Military, Distance, Moving

  "Conflict and Defense: A General Theory". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, p. 245, 1962.

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• The organizer who creates roles, who creates the holes that will force the pegs to their shape, is a prime creator of personality itself. When we ask of a man, "What is he?" the answer is usually given in terms of his major role, job, or position in society; he is the place that he fills, a painter, a priest, a politician, a criminal.

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  Jobs, Men, Personality

  KENNETH E. BOULDING (1953). “THE ORGANIZATIONAL REVOLUTION”

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• [The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?

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  Discipline

  "Humanity and Society", Association for Humanist Sociology US, Vol. 21, p. 56, 1997.

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• The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

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  Absurd, Concepts, Values

  "Economics As A Moral Science". American Economic Review, 59 (1), p. 4, March 1969.

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• The concept of need is often looked upon rather unfavorably by economists, in contrast with the concept of demand. Both, however, have their own strengths and weaknesses. The need concept is criticized as being too mechanical, as denying the autonomy and individuality of the human person, and as implying that the human being is a machine which "needs" fuel in the shape of food, engine dope in the shape of medicine, and spare parts provided by the surgeon.

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  Dope, Medicine, Individuality

  "The Concept of Need for Health Services". The Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly. Volume 44, No. 4, Part 2, p. 202, 1967.

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• The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

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  Black, Penalties, Higher

  "A Note on the Theory of the Black Market" by Kenneth E. Boulding in "The Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science", Volume 13, No. 1 (pp. 115-118), www.jstor.org. February 1947.

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• [The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.

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  Degrees, Lost, Equilibrium

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 14, 1958.

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• There is something, however humble, which can properly be called skill among those who recognise themselves as economists.

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  Humble, Skills, Economist

  "The Skills of the Economist". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. 4, 1958.

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• ... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

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  Past, Men, Typical

  Kenneth E. Boulding, Harold J. Barnett, Rene Dubos, Leonard J. Duhl, Ralph Turvey, Roland N. McKean, Allen V. Kneese, M. Mason Gaffney, Gilbert F. White, David Lowenthal, Norton E. Long, Jacob H. Beuscher (1966). “Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy”

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• The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

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  Knights, Together, Events

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• The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.

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  Drama, Finals, Economic

  "Innovation by Demand". Book by Andrew McMeekin, p. 131, 2002.

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• As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

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  Memories, Two, Different

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• Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

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  Facts, Needs, Computer

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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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  Laissez Faire, Logic, Kind

  "Ed Miliband's Bedford Speech Heavy on Rhetoric, Weak on Action" by Simon Leadbetter, blueandgreentomorrow.com. February 16, 2013.

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• The tourist business is a trap, it is a tained honey; Man clearly should have stayed in bed, and not invented money.

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  Mother, Men, Should Have

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• There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

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  Problem, Economics, Social

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• Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.

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  Loss, Gains, Conflict

  "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1958.

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• [Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together.

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  Together, World, Shapes

  "Kenneth Ewart Boulding: 1910-1993. An Appreciation" by Robert A. Solo, Journal of Economic Issues Volume 28, No. 4, pp. 1187-1200, www.jstor.org. December 1994.

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• Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

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  Simple, Brain, Nervous

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• I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

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  Problem, Economics, Conviction

  "A Reconstruction of Economics". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. VII, 1950.

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• [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... Land, labor, and capital are extremely heterogeneous aggregates, not much better than earth, air, fire, and water.

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  Real, Land, Fire

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• [Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

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  Conflict, Praxis, Process

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• [There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

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  Men, Decision, Study

  "Contemporary Economic Research" by Kenneth Boulding in "Trends in Social Science" edited by Donald P. Ray (pp. 9-26), 1958.

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• The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments

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  Entrepreneur, Alternatives, Cost

  "The Theory of the Firm in the Last Ten Years". The American Economic Review, Volume 32, No. 4, p. 793, December 1942.

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