The late Kenneth E. Boulding, formerly Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus and Research Associate and Project Director, Institute of Behavioural Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, US

’For one who wants to read a few essays by Kenneth Boulding, this book is a rewarding introduction to the work of one of the most important economists of our age. It might also be useful in a research library.’Journal of Economic Issues

• Part 1 Introduction: a biographical autobiography. Part 2 Towards a new economics: allocation and distribution; space as a factor of production; puzzles over distribution; what went wrong with economics?; the economics of pride and shame; appropriate methodologies for the study of the economy (published in Polish only); the implications of macrodistribution for personal distribution; taxonomy as a source of error. Part 3 The grants economy: innovation and the grant economy; pathologies of the public grants economy; a second look at "Progress and Poverty". Part 4 International economic relations: international economic relations; the role of conflict in the dynamics of society; an economic assessment of unilateral national defense; unilateral national defense organizations - an economic analysis of non-economic structures; the role of organized nonviolence in achieving stable peace. Part 5 Ecological economics: the unimportance of energy; development as evolution towards human betterment; cybernetics in the evolutionary process; regions of time; population factors in development economics.

The late Kenneth E. Boulding, formerly Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus and Research Associate and Project Director, Institute of Behavioural Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, US

’For one who wants to read a few essays by Kenneth Boulding, this book is a rewarding introduction to the work of one of the most important economists of our age. It might also be useful in a research library.’Journal of Economic Issues

• Part 1 Introduction: a biographical autobiography. Part 2 Towards a new economics: allocation and distribution; space as a factor of production; puzzles over distribution; what went wrong with economics?; the economics of pride and shame; appropriate methodologies for the study of the economy (published in Polish only); the implications of macrodistribution for personal distribution; taxonomy as a source of error. Part 3 The grants economy: innovation and the grant economy; pathologies of the public grants economy; a second look at "Progress and Poverty". Part 4 International economic relations: international economic relations; the role of conflict in the dynamics of society; an economic assessment of unilateral national defense; unilateral national defense organizations - an economic analysis of non-economic structures; the role of organized nonviolence in achieving stable peace. Part 5 Ecological economics: the unimportance of energy; development as evolution towards human betterment; cybernetics in the evolutionary process; regions of time; population factors in development economics.

The late Kenneth E. Boulding, formerly Distinguished Professor of Economics, Emeritus and Research Associate and Project Director, Institute of Behavioural Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, US

’For one who wants to read a few essays by Kenneth Boulding, this book is a rewarding introduction to the work of one of the most important economists of our age. It might also be useful in a research library.’Journal of Economic Issues

• Part 1 Introduction: a biographical autobiography. Part 2 Towards a new economics: allocation and distribution; space as a factor of production; puzzles over distribution; what went wrong with economics?; the economics of pride and shame; appropriate methodologies for the study of the economy (published in Polish only); the implications of macrodistribution for personal distribution; taxonomy as a source of error. Part 3 The grants economy: innovation and the grant economy; pathologies of the public grants economy; a second look at "Progress and Poverty". Part 4 International economic relations: international economic relations; the role of conflict in the dynamics of society; an economic assessment of unilateral national defense; unilateral national defense organizations - an economic analysis of non-economic structures; the role of organized nonviolence in achieving stable peace. Part 5 Ecological economics: the unimportance of energy; development as evolution towards human betterment; cybernetics in the evolutionary process; regions of time; population factors in development economics.