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Kenneth E. Boulding

1910 - 1993

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Kenneth Ewart Boulding (; January 18, 1910 – March 18, 1993) was an English-born American economist, educator, peace activist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. Boulding was the author of two citation classics: The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (1956) and Conflict and Defense: A General Theory (1962). He was co-founder of general systems theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science. He was married to sociologist Elise M. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth E. Boulding has received more than 310,568 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Kenneth E. Boulding is the 156th most popular economist (down from 149th in 2019), the 1,366th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,298th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 156 out of 414. Before him are Robert F. Engle, Benedetto Cotrugli, Walt Whitman Rostow, Peter Diamond, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Michał Kalecki. After him are Ernst Engel, John Bates Clark, Oskar R. Lange, William F. Sharpe, Daniel McFadden, and Roger Myerson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 86. Before him are Louis Slotin, Maurice Papon, Irmfried Eberl, Juan Velasco Alvarado, Miguel Hernández, and Remo Giazotto. After him are Jack Hawkins, Masayoshi Ōhira, Johan Ferrier, Trygve Bratteli, J. Allen Hynek, and Carmine Coppola. Among people deceased in 1993, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 70. Before him are Silvina Ocampo, Luciano Leggio, Yen Chia-kan, Nina Berberova, C. Northcote Parkinson, and Meliton Kantaria. After him are Desanka Maksimović, Salah Jadid, Myrna Loy, John Connally, Maurice Yaméogo, and Ishirō Honda.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 1,366 out of 8,785. Before him are Geoff Hurst (1941), John Edensor Littlewood (1885), Edward Gordon Craig (1872), Reginald Johnston (1874), Donovan (1946), and Nehemiah Grew (1641). After him are Cicely Saunders (1918), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Frederick Abel (1827), Hertha Ayrton (1854), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), and Mary de Bohun (1369).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 23. Before him are Joan Robinson (1903), Harriet Martineau (1802), James Meade (1907), Angus Deaton (1945), Clive Granger (1934), and James Mirrlees (1936). After him are Henry Sidgwick (1838), Lionel Robbins (1898), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), Oliver Hart (1948), Harold Laski (1893), and Israel Kirzner (1930).

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