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Quotes from p. 16-17 as cited in Andrew Mearman — Kenneth Boulding

1910–1993 United States

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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.

p. 16-17 as cited in Andrew Mearman (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kenneth Boulding (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.