Kenneth Boulding

It has taken several decades to imbue public opinion with idea that we live in what Kenneth Boulding called Earth spacecraft; A specific space, with limited potential for resource exploitation and survival conditions that are deteriorating without a strong universal political agreement to avoid it. Pollution has ...

But a far more fundamental requirement is ignored, namely that business must lead on really critical issues, particularly the point raised long ago by economist Kenneth Boulding: “Anyone who considers economic growth can continue indefinitely in a finite system is either a madman or an economist”.

Some years ago, the Onion ran a satirical piece about a Chinese worker churning out plastic tat for American consumers. Chen Hsien is unimpressed with the useless items Americans seem to crave, from salad shooters and microwave omelet cookers to animal-shaped contact lens cases. "I also hear that, ...

But as the economist Kenneth Boulding has sagely reminded us, “If deterrence were really stable… it would cease to deter. If the probability of nuclear weapons going off were zero, they would not deter anybody.” Without the very real prospect of mushroom clouds, deterrence would be de-fanged.

In times of crisis, new leaders emerge. And make no mistake, we are in such a time of crisis right now – a time of danger and opportunity, as the Chinese pictogram for 'crisis' would characterise it. We face a perfect storm of economic crises, humanitarian crises and ecological crises. The best leaders will be ...

Natural resources and technology are complements, not substitutes for each other. Therefore growth cannot continue indefinitely no matter how clever we are. There are limits to growth imposed by the natural world. Kenneth Boulding provided a foundation for Daly in this area of thought. Third, Daly then ...

Long before the anti-war demonstrations of the 1960s, Elise was speaking out against war and nuclear weapons testing. In college, she became involved with the pacifist Religious Society of Friends, or Quakers. A Quaker meeting was where she first met economist Kenneth Boulding, an immigrant from ...