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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.
Kenneth E. Boulding
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Kenneth E. Boulding
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: January 18
Died: 1993
Died: March 18
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City of Liverpool
Kenneth Ewart Boulding
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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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Physicists only talk to physicists, economists to economists-worse still, nuclear physicists only talk to nuclear physicists and econometricians to econometricians. One wonders sometimes if science will not grind to a stop in an assemblage of walled-in hermits, each mumbling to himself words in a private language that only he can understand.
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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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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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Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.
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If a totally new image is to come into being however, there must be sensitivity to internal messages, the image itself must be sensitive to change, must be unstable, and it must include a value image which places high value on trials, experiments, and the trying of new things.
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What exists, is possible.
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Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.
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Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.
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[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.
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One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps in both theoretical and empirical knowledge. Adequate theoretical models extend up to about the fourth level, and not much beyond. Empirical knowledge is deficient at practically all levels.
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Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.
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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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The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
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In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
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The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.
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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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In calling society an ecological system we are not merely using an analogy society is an example of the general concept of an ecosystem that is, an ecological system of which biological systems - forests, fields, swamps - are other examples.
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Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.
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