ABSTRACT
The scholarship of Kenneth Boulding has produced substantial contributions to several areas of knowledge, many of which are only peripherally related to the discipline of economics, his presumed academic specialty. Indeed, being confined to any single discipline was a constraint Boulding refused to accept at a time when economics often appeared more interested in turning inward rather than outward. By one account, Boulding “published more than a thousand items in thirty subject areas” (Solo 1994: 1188). Among his numerous achievements was his helping to establish the direction that a fledgling interdisciplinary pursuit called systems theory was to pursue.
