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"Economics deals with the behavior of commodities rather than with the behavior of men."
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Kenneth BouldingJust as there are inputs which are supplied by the owner of a business — Kenneth Boulding
"Just as there are inputs which are supplied by the owner of a business, and whose value therefore is a "virtual," not an actual, expense, so there can be outputs which are consumed by the owner of a business, and whose value therefore forms."
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Kenneth Boulding
Kenneth Boulding
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Kenneth Ewart Boulding was an English-born American economist, educator, peace activist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. Boulding was the author of two citation classics: The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (1956) and Conflict and Defense: A General Theory (1962). He was co-founder of general systems theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social scien
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"Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand."
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"The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state."
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"We all, or nearly all, consent If wages rise by ten per cent It puts a choice before the nation Of unemployment or inflation."
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"The idea of knowledge as an improbable structure is still a good place to start. Knowledge, however, has a dimension which goes beyond that of mere information or improbability. This is a dimension of significance which is very hard to reduce to quantitative form. Two knowledge structures might be equally improbable but one might be much more significant than the other."
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"Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity."
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