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“The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.”

Quote by Kenneth E. Boulding

Book:Three Faces of Power

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Three Faces of Power

This book delves into the multifaceted nature of power, examining its manifestation in various settings such as politics, business, and personal relationships. It analyzes the dynamics of power and its effects on those who wield it and those who are influenced by it. more

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Kenneth E. Boulding

Kenneth E. Boulding was a renowned economist, born on January 18, 1910, and passed away on March 18, 1993. His research in economics covered a wide range of fields, particularly in general systems theory, conflict theory, and peace studies. more

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“Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability - whether they are easily measured or not.”

Should Done Creativity Trouble Diversity Aim Property Resilience Stability Sustainability

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.”

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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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“General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.”

“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.”

Way Giving Ideas Levels Models Advantage Gaps Fourth Adequate Hierarchy Theoretical

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic woman - a good wife, pulling the coat tails of her heroic husband, checking his extravagances of speech and action with words of caution and good sense. But without the heroic coat tails to pull, life for both of them would be dull and savorless indeed.”

Men Would Be Action Wife Economic Husband Speech Dull Heroic Pulling Tails Coats Caution Good Sense Extravagance Good Wife

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Economic progress means the discovery and application of better ways of doing things to satisfy our wants. The piping of water to a household that previously dragged it from a well, the growing of two blades of grass where one grew before, the development of a power loom that enables one man to weave ten times as much as he could before, the use of steam power and electric power instead of horse or human power - all these things clearly represent economic progress.”

“The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.”

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Book:Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

Source: Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms

“The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.”

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Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“At the opposite pole from the gift is tribute - that is, a grant made out of fear and under threat. A threat is a statement of the form "you do something that I want or I will do something that you do not want.”

Want Made Form Opposites Threat Statements Grants Tribute

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding