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Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes - Page 2

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

Kenneth E. Boulding (1990). “Three Faces of Power”, p.96, SAGE

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

"Philosophical Perspectives on Accounting: Essays in Honour of Edward Stamp". Book by Edward Stamp and Michael J. Mumford, p. 147, 1993.

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

Kenneth E. Boulding (1990). “Three Faces of Power”, p.110, SAGE

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

"Collected Papers: Toward a general social science" (1974) by Kenneth Boulding (p. 87), as quoted in "Environment, technology, and future generations" by D. A. Bella, 1978.

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

Kenneth E. Boulding, Harold J. Barnett, Rene Dubos, Leonard J. Duhl, Ralph Turvey, Roland N. McKean, Allen V. Kneese, M. Mason Gaffney, Gilbert F. White, David Lowenthal, Norton E. Long, Jacob H. Beuscher (1966). “Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy”