ABSTRACT

Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields. Boulding is the quintessential interdisciplinary scholar. He died in 1993, but he has left a legacy in economics, conflict studies, systems theory, ecology, biology, communication studies, and ethics. As an economist proper he has tested and expanded the boundaries of that field without unduly "invading" and undermining the expertise and established knowledge of the other social sciences. This proposed volume will allow scholars who have worked or are starting to work in areas that Boulding has initiated, established and made a continued contribution to, to understand the links between these fields and other related ones. The volume will establish a source of inspiration for some time to come.

part 1|17 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|15 pages

Boulding and interdisciplinary economics

Introduction to the volume

part 2|43 pages

Systems Theory

chapter 2|12 pages

Key text: General systems theory

The skeleton of science 1

chapter 2a|15 pages

Commentary article: Kenneth Boulding

Ecodynamicist or evolutionary economist? 1

part 3|48 pages

Unity of social sciences

chapter 3b|23 pages

Comment: Social dynamics, evolution, and the unity of social sciences

Kenneth Boulding in the light of Friedrich von Hayek and John Searle

part 6|49 pages

Power theory

part 7|32 pages

Evolutionary economics

chapter 7a|4 pages

Commentary article: Kenneth Boulding

A founder of evolutionary economics 1

chapter 7b|16 pages

Comment: Evolutionary economics

A framework for organizational decision-making

part 8|30 pages

Institutions/institutional economics

part 9|32 pages

Spaceship earth (ecological economics)

part 10|38 pages

Cultural economics

chapter 10a|19 pages

Comment: Culture, mind and context

The revolutionary road of Kenneth E. Boulding

part 11|47 pages

Grants economics

chapter 11b|10 pages

Comment: A grant perspective

Boulding's grants economics revisited

part 14|26 pages

The future of economics

chapter 14a|13 pages

Comment: What went wrong with economics?

A quarter century on

chapter 15|1 pages

Sonnet for Economics

chapter 16|2 pages

Epilogue

Boulding transformations?