First edition, first printing. Small 8vo. vi, [2], 117, [3] pp. Original cloth, spine lettered in red, top edge in red, dust jacket (internally clean, spine panel of jacket very slightly faded with some light wear to tips and joints, notwithstanding a very good copy). New Brunswick, New Jersey; Rutgers University Press, 1966.
A slim work on the status and progress of the social sciences by the English-born American economist and educator Kenneth E. Boulding. ‘The steadfast purpose that Boulding pursued in his work has been integration of knowledge. Instead of following the endlessly ramifying paths of specialized research in his chosen discipline, he sought to reach out from his ‘home base’ in economics to knowledge generated in other fields and, above all, to establish a leverage for deriving common vocabularies, conceptual frameworks, and methods’ (New Palgrave).
