Kenneth Boulding: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

215 Pages·2015·0.75 MB·English

by  Robert Scott (auth.)

Kenneth Boulding
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Kenneth Boulding
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Robert Scott
Associate Professor, Monmouth University, USA
© Robert Scott 2015
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Contents
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xv
1 An Introduction to Boulding 1
2 The Day the Liberals Won 9
Bouldings and Rowes 9
Baby Boulding Boy 12
Pacifist Born 18
Quaker Beginnings 21
Mark of the English Gentleman 22
Good-Byes 29
New College, Oxford 30
3 Mr. Boulding and the Americans 35
Quaker Writings 44
Economic Analysis 48
Quavering Pacifism 49
Elise 51
Elise in Brief 53
League of Nations 57
Fisk 58
The Hawkeye State 60
The Draft 62
North 64
Disarmament and Disillusion 64
Psychic Capital 66
From Hawkeye to Wolverine 70
4 Cosmogenesis 71
Ann Arbor, Michigan 71
Within a Budding Grove 72
Boulding’s Cosmogenesis 74
Religion, Ethics, and Society 78
A Causal Shift 83
A Golden State of Mind 85
Image Is Everything 86
Society for General Systems Research 92
Center for Research on Conflict Resolution 92
So Much Trouble in the World 95