Primer on Social Dynamics History as Dialectics and Development

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Boulding, Kenneth E.

Psychology & Counseling

Free Press

Stable Peace

The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like?A policy for peace aims to speed up the historically slow, painful, but persistent transition from a state of continual war and turmoil to one of continual peace. In a stable peace, the war-peace system is tipped firmly toward peace and away from the cycle of folly, illusion, and ill will that leads to war.Boulding proposes a number of modest, easily attainable, eminently reasonable policies directed toward this goal. His recommendations include the removal of national boundaries from political agendas, the encouragement of reciprocal acts of good will between potential enemies, the exploration of the theory and practice of nonviolence, the development of governmental and nongovernmental organizations to promote peace, and the development of research in the whole area of peace and conflict management.Written in straightforward, lucid prose, Stable Peace will be of importance to politicians, policy makers, economists, diplomats, all concerned citizens, and all those interested in international relations and the resolution of conflict.

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

University of Texas Press

The human race has often put a high value on struggle, strife, turmoil, and excitement. Peace has been regarded as a utopian, unattainable, perhaps dull ideal or as some random element over which we have no control. However, the desperate necessities of the nuclear age have forced us to take peace seriously as an object of both personal and national policy. Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like?
A policy for peace aims to speed up the historically slow, painful, but persistent transition from a state of continual war and turmoil to one of continual peace. In a stable peace, the war-peace system is tipped firmly toward peace and away from the cycle of folly, illusion, and ill will that leads to war.
Boulding proposes a number of modest, easily attainable, eminently reasonable policies directed toward this goal. His recommendations include the removal of national boundaries from political agendas, the encouragement of reciprocal acts of good will between potential enemies, the exploration of the theory and practice of nonviolence, the development of governmental and nongovernmental organizations to promote peace, and the development of research in the whole area of peace and conflict management.
Written in straightforward, lucid prose, Stable Peace will be of importance to politicians, policy makers, economists, diplomats, all concerned citizens, and all those interested in international relations and the resolution of conflict.

This book is a study of the American economy from 1929 to 1989 through the analysis of national income statistics and other data. It reaches important conclusions regarding the causes of unemployment, the relation of inflation to the stock of liquid assets and the budget deficit, the proportion of the population in poverty, the gap between interest and profit rates, the relation of productivity to income. These conclusions are discussed using graphs and diagrams extensively.

The Structure of a Modern Economy: The United States, 1929-89

Business & Money

Economics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Boulding discusses the image as the key to understanding society and human behavior

The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

University of Michigan Press

The social philosophy of Kenneth Boulding

Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and Ethics

Reference

Univ of Michigan Pr

Since its publication in 1979, this classic exposition of how society evolves has commanded the attention of both readers and reviewers. In 1981 a new paperback edition was printed, in order to make the book more widely available.  ′...the book is an astonishing triumph. For those of us who find something lacking in the narrow precision of our professional work, merely to undertake a synthesis of such breadth is an act of considerable courage. To have succeeded to the extent that Boulding has is an achievement on a scale difficult to contemplate.′ -- Contemporary Psychology, September 1979  ′Boulding′s masterwork is full of wise and provocative insights into an amazing range of phenomena. It is one of those b

Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Evolutionary Economics

A new model of economic life that looks at it in terms of ecological interaction and mutation is presented in Evolutionary Economics. It looks at commodities, for example, as if they were a species in the social ecosystem. Boulding describes his new model with clarity and wit, showing its roots in classical economics and exploring the prospects of an evolutionary approach for bettering human conditions.

A new model of economic life that looks at it in terms of ecological interaction and mutation is presented in Evolutionary Economics. It looks at commodities, for example, as if they were a species in the social ecosystem. Boulding describes his new model with clarity and wit, showing its roots in classical economics and exploring the prospects of an evolutionary approach for bettering human conditions.

Since its publication in 1979, this classic exposition of how society evolves has commanded the attention of both readers and reviewers. In 1981 a new paperback edition was printed, in order to make the book more widely available. ′...the book is an astonishing triumph. For those of us who find something lacking in the narrow precision of our professional work, merely to undertake a synthesis of such breadth is an act of considerable courage. To have succeeded to the extent that Boulding has is an achievement on a scale difficult to contemplate.′ -- Contemporary Psychology, September 1979 ′Boulding′s masterwork is full of wise and provocative insights into an amazing range of phenomena. It is one of those b

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Primer on Social Dynamics History as Dialectics and Development

Stable Peace

Stable Peace

The Structure of a Modern Economy: The United States, 1929-89

The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

Beyond Economics: Essays on Society, Religion, and Ethics

Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution

Evolutionary Economics

Evolutionary Economics

Ecodynamics: A New Theory of Societal Evolution