Quotes from Kenneth E. Boulding

Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Communication can only take place among equals.

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

The economy of the future might be called the "spaceman economy," in which the earth has become a single spaceship, without unlimited reservoirs of anything.

The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal.