“The process of consumption is the final act in the economic drama.” ProcessEconomicDramaFinalsConsumption Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.” MayWarProcessDevelopmentHistoricalInternationalDefinedStable Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic or social theorists. In economic theory, especially, the subject is almost completely ignored. This is not, I think, because economists regard mankind as basically selfish or even because economic man is supposed to act only in his self-interest; it is rather because economics has essentially grown up around the phenomenon of exchange and its theoretical structure rests heavily on this process.” ThinkingMenLittlesHas BeensSelfGivenSocialProcessInterestViewsAttentionEconomicSubjectsMankindTheoryEconomicsImportanceRegardStructureSelfishOur SocietyPhenomenonSurprisingPhilanthropyIgnoredEconomistTheoreticalSelf InterestTheoristsEconomic Theory Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.” PeopleHumansKindCertainValuesProcessCommonGroupsAcceptanceCommunicationEthicsAriseDefinedConsiderationEthicalPermitDivorcedLearning ProcessHuman SocietySubculture Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for, as we have seen, all processes of production involve the direction of energy by some know-how structure toward the selection, transportation, and transformation of materials into the product” KnowsEnergyProcessKnow HowInformationMaterialsProductsTransformationStructureProductionsFactorsAccurateSelectionTransportationFactors Of Production Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“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
“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.” DifferentOrderProcessEconomyClearBuildingSkillsModelsImportanceCriticalFactorsArtisticMathematicalReasonableFacultyRelativeBehaviourSensitivityHypothesisSelectionEquationsExplaining Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.” ShouldKindCertainValuesCultureGrowsProcessCommonGrowing UpTasteTolerateSubculturePersonal Taste Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.” ProcessDealsConflictPraxis Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“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 Source: Three Faces of Power
“In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.” ArtProcessArtisticNovelty Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
