Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes about Economics

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Mathematics brought rigor to Economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis.

Rigor Mortis, Economics, Mathematics

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

Might, Earth, Economics

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”

Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Escaping, Medieval, Economics

"Economics As A Moral Science" by Kenneth E. Boulding, in "American Economic Review", 59 (1), (p. 12), March 1969.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

Kenneth E. Boulding

Problem, Economics, Conviction

"A Reconstruction of Economics". Book by Kenneth Ewart Boulding, p. VII, 1950.