Quotessence
Home / Authors / Kenneth E. Boulding
Kenneth E. Boulding

Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

Economist

Filter quotes by topic

AllHumansEconomicsEconomistWorldMenEconomicSocialProcessMayShouldHas BeensValuesRegardStructureComplexityConflictIfsOrganizationActivityEarth

Famous Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes

“Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.”

MindHumansMayGovernmentPoliticalNationsGrowsChurchPartyObjectsBuildingMaterialsMachinesOrganizationStructureCorporationsHuman MindTribesPolitical PartiesAutomobileOrganizationalArtifactsExtended FamilyOrganizational Structure
Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
Create image

“Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity and literary vagueness... It may well be that the slovenly and literary borderland between economics and sociology will be the most fruitful building ground during the years to come and that mathematical economics will remain too flawless in its perfection to be very fruitful.”

YearsWellsMayBuildingEconomicsPerfectionMathematicalContentmentBarriersConventionsSociologyEleganceAttainmentFlawlessGeneralitiesVaguenessDiffusion
Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
Create image

“Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics and politics: what was intended to be a mere porch to ethics is either the whole house or nothing at all. In so laying down its life welfare economics may be able to contribute some of its insights and analytical methods to a much broader evaluative analysis of the whole social process.”

MayWholeSeemsAbleHouseSocialProcessEthicsEconomicsMethodMereInsightWelfareAnalysisExpansionVergeSocial SciencePorchLaying Down
Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
Create image

“The very act of thinking about power in our lives and experiences creates a process of revelation and self-analysis that may even make us look at ourselves in a new light... thinking about power and its complex manifestations may not simply lead to a better understanding of the abstract complexities of society, but may have an effect on one?s own image and identity. Perhaps a warning label should be placed on the cover.”

ThinkingShouldLooksMaySelfLightProcessUnderstandingOur LivesEffectsIdentityComplexesLabelsAnalysisManifestationAbstractComplexityRevelationsWarningSelf AnalysisWarning Labels
Book:Three Faces of Power
Create image