BOULDING (Kenneth E.)
The Skills of the Economist.
‘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. This drive toward integration marks all of Boulding’s contributions to economics’ (New Palgrave).
‘Boulding’s writings throughout his long career have constantly tended to enlarge the scope of economic science in an effort to work towards a more general social science of which traditional economics would only be a part, albeit an important part’ (Blaug).
