ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about Kenneth Boulding grew up on Seymour Street, near the center of Liverpool, England, born there on January 18, 1910. Boulding had published his first article in the field of economics while a student at Oxford. Boulding's teachers had quickly identified him as an unusually promising student of economics. He showed himself to have a critical mind about central ideas in the field by questioning in print the views of his well-known professor at Chicago, Frank Knight. But economics was not Boulding's only interest. Active in the Society of Friends, he wrote several small books expressing pacifist views. It was through his involvement in Quaker activities that he met the woman who was to become his wife. Boulding's first book project was a general work in economic theory. A more technical work by Boulding came out in 1950 under the title of A Reconstruction of Economics.
