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Kenneth Boulding Great Thinkers in Economics Series Series Editor: A.P. Thirlwall is Professor of Applied Economics, University of Kent, UK. Great Thinkers in Economics is designed to illuminate the economics of some of the great historical and contemporary economists by exploring the interactions between their lives and work, and the events surrounding them. The books are brief and written in a style that makes them not only of interest to professional economists, but also intelligible for students of economics and the interested lay person. Forthcoming titles: David Reisman JAMES BUCHANAN David Cowan FRANK H. KNIGHT Peter Boettke F.A. HAYEK Titles include: Robert Scott KENNETH BOULDING Robert Dimand JAMES TOBIN Peter E. Earl and Bruce Littleboy G.L.S. SHACKLE Barbara Ingham and Paul Mosley SIR ARTHUR LEWIS John E. King DAVID RICARDO Esben Sloth Andersen JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Gavin Kennedy ADAM SMITH Julio Lopez and Michaël Assous MICHAL KALECKI G.C. Harcourt and Prue Kerr JOAN ROBINSON Alessandro Roncaglia PIERO SRAFFA Paul Davidson JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES John E. King NICHOLAS KALDOR Gordon Fletcher DENNIS ROBERTSON Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan FRANCO MODIGLIANI William J. Barber GUNNAR MYRDAL Peter D. Groenewegen ALFRED MARSHALL Great Thinkers in Economics Series Standing Order ISBN 978–14039–8555–2 (Hardback) 978–14039–8556–9 (Paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England This page intentionally left blank Kenneth Boulding A Voice Crying in the Wilderness Robert Scott Associate Professor, Monmouth University, USA © Robert Scott 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-03437-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-44178-5 ISBN 978-1-137-03438-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137034380 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. In memory of Professor Fred Lee This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1 An Introduction to Boulding 1 2 The Day the Liberals Won 9 Bouldings and Rowes 9 Baby Boulding Boy 12 Pacifist Born 18 Quaker Beginnings 21 Mark of the English Gentleman 22 Good-Byes 29 New College, Oxford 30 3 Mr. Boulding and the Americans 35 Quaker Writings 44 Economic Analysis 48 Quavering Pacifism 49 Elise 51 Elise in Brief 53 League of Nations 57 Fisk 58 The Hawkeye State 60 The Draft 62 North 64 Disarmament and Disillusion 64 Psychic Capital 66 From Hawkeye to Wolverine 70 4 Cosmogenesis 71 Ann Arbor, Michigan 71 Within a Budding Grove 72 Boulding’s Cosmogenesis 74 Religion, Ethics, and Society 78 A Causal Shift 83 A Golden State of Mind 85 Image Is Everything 86 Society for General Systems Research 92 Center for Research on Conflict Resolution 92 So Much Trouble in the World 95
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