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“Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.”

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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

“[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together.”

World Together Values Information Shapes Behavior Ideals Mechanism Temperature Outside World Value Systems Receipts

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Because of his capacity for abstract communications and language and his ability to enter in imagination into the lives of others, man is able to build organizations of a size and complexity far beyond those of the lower animals.”

Men Able Language Imagination Ability Animal Communication Capacity Organization Size Abstract Complexity Lives Of Others

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“Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.”

Form Term Loss Greater Particular Conflict Gains Institutions Property Justification Restriction Elimination

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“Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.”

Should Mean Ends Property Private Property Abolition

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“There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or the social scientist. The one with which I am particularly concerned here is that of the role of knowledge in social systems, both as a product of the past and as a determinant of the future.”

Past Lying Courses Social Numbers Roles Products Concerned Scientist Philosopher Economist Provinces Social Systems

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“It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature.”

Thinking Courses Absurd

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“The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage, uncontrollable emotion, and a desperate search for identity. Out of adolescence, however, comes maturity in which physical growth with all its attendant difficulties comes to an end, but in which growth continues in knowledge, in spirit, in community, and in love; it is to this that we look forward as a human race. This goal, once seen with our eyes, will draw our faltering feet toward it.”

“[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.”

May War Process Development Historical International Defined Stable

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“One reason why the progressive state is 'cheerful' is that social conflict is diminished by it.”

States Reason Social Conflict Reason Why Progressive Cheerful

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