From an interior life
Tom Jackson reflects on the writing of Kenneth Boulding
Kenneth Boulding was a Quaker, economist, philosopher and poet who died in March 1993. He was born in Liverpool, raised as a Methodist, and at Oxford University was attracted to the Religious Society of Friends – particularly by the Peace Testimony. He started out as a chemist and then switched to economics. After Oxford he travelled, in 1932, to the University of Chicago and it was there that his reputation flourished. Kenneth Boulding’s many books, however, were not confined to economics. He dealt with subjects such as world and social issues, for example, in books such as World as a Total System and On Human Betterment.
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