11 quotes
We all, or nearly all, consent If wages rise by ten per cent It puts a choice before the nation Of unemployment or inflation.
Kenneth Boulding (1951)
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
Kenneth Boulding (1973)
The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.
Kenneth Boulding (1957)
Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.
Kenneth Boulding (1990)
The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.
Kenneth Boulding (1986)
The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.
Kenneth Boulding (1947)
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there?
Kenneth Boulding (1977)
[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.
Kenneth Boulding (1975)
Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
Kenneth Boulding (1971)
[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.
Kenneth Boulding (1958)
A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species of large four-wheeled bugs with detachable brains; peculiar animals which rested when they sent their brains away from them but performed in rather predictable manner when their brains were recalled.
Kenneth Boulding (1966)