The Economics of Human Betterment is a comparative look at economic change and social progress. It is about betterment--a change or process--and about institutions and countries as they evolve. It is about human betterment--and therefore concerned with perceived welfare and the identification of basic human needs. And it is about economics, but about means as means, not means as ends. This book asks in what way productive activities (whether f...
This volume is a sampling of quips, verses, drawings, and even the music of one of the most original and versatile minds of the twentieth century, Kenneth Boulding prominent economist, lecturer, and author
This collection of essays by Kenneth and Elise Boulding, spanning a period of 28 years, highlights both the differences and commonalities in thought between these two world renowned and much admired futurist scholars. The overarching theme is a passionate conviction that the world is in dire need of mending. This collection has been brought together in tribute to the life and work of Kenneth Boulding and his dedication to the study of the futu...
The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would ...
This book is a study of the American economy from 1929 to 1989 through the analysis of national income statistics and other data. It reaches important conclusions regarding the causes of unemployment, the relation of inflation to the stock of liquid assets and the budget deficit, the proportion of the population in poverty, the gap between interest and profit rates, the relation of productivity to income. These conclusions are discussed using ...
Broadly defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume - new in paper - identifies three major types of power: threat power, which is particularly important in political life, economic power, which derives from the power to produce and exchange goods and depends on the changing distribution of property ownership, and integrative power, which rests on relationships such as love, legitimacy, respect, affection, community and iden...
Offers a sampling of quips, verses, drawings, and even the music of one of the most original and versatile minds of the twentieth century, Kenneth Boulding, prominent economist, lecturer, and author.
Useful for early and intermediate level college economics classes, this book introduces those with some knowledge of economics to the larger scientific background of the subject. Specifically, it focuses on economics as a behavioral science, as a political science, a mathematical science, a moral science and finally it looks at the successes and failures of economics and what it portends for the future.
