Kenneth Boulding: An Underappreciated Economist

Yahya Alshamy (Student Network member) and Christopher Coyne (Director) recently completed a working paper exploring some of the key, and neglected, themes in Kenneth Boulding’s scholarship.

You can read the paper here.

This paper provides an overview of some of the key, and neglected, themes in Kenneth Boulding’s scholarship. We discuss three of his books—The Image, Stable Peace, and Three Faces of Power. These books reflect Boulding’s emphasis on individual agency, subjectivism, the nature of knowledge, open-ended processes, and the role of institutions.