First edition, first printing. 8vo. viii, [2], 153, [1] pp. Original red cloth, spine lettered in white and black, dust jacket (tiny amount of faint spotting to edges of text block and endpapers, neat ownership inscription to front pastedown, some wear to extremities of jacket with light chipping to head of spine panel, overall a very good copy). New York, The Free Press, 1970.
An expansion of Boulding’s earlier lectures delivered in 1963-64 at the International Christian University of Japan on ’Dialectical and Non-Dialectical Elements in the Interpretation of History’. ‘In its simplest form the argument is that evolution, whether biological or social, is fundamentally a kind of learning process and that learning is not very dialectical, though it may sometimes have dialectical elements in it’ (A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists, p. 71).
