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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 290,482 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenneth E. Boulding is the 151st most popular economist (down from 141st in 2019), the 1,302nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,274th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 151 out of 315Before him are Benedetto Cotrugli, Christopher A. Sims, Gustav von Schmoller, Lucas Papademos, Christopher A. Pissarides, and John Bates Clark. After him are Michał Kalecki, Dani Rodrik, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daniel McFadden, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, and James Heckman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 74Before him are Tancredo Neves, Maurice Papon, Chico Xavier, Farid al-Atrash, Juan Velasco Alvarado, and Remo Giazotto. After him are Barthélemy Boganda, Miguel Hernández, Paul Bowles, He Zizhen, Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, and Ferdinand Daučík. Among people deceased in 1993, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 61Before him are Bruno Pontecorvo, Matthew Ridgway, Meliton Kantaria, Ishirō Honda, Rahmon Nabiyev, and György Sárosi. After him are Dražen Petrović, Tofiq Bahramov, Hervé Villechaize, C. Northcote Parkinson, Luciano Leggio, and Myrna Loy.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 1,302 out of 7,765Before him are Tom Hiddleston (1981), Alexander of Hales (1175), Michael Redgrave (1908), Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415), Martin Lowry (1874), and Thomas Addison (1793). After him are Janick Gers (1957), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Wat Tyler (1341), Brenda Blethyn (1946), Steven Gerrard (1980), and Ralph Richardson (1902).

Among ECONOMISTS In United Kingdom

Among economists born in United Kingdom, Kenneth E. Boulding ranks 22Before him are Richard Stone (1913), James Meade (1907), Clive Granger (1934), Joan Robinson (1903), Angus Deaton (1945), and James Mirrlees (1936). After him are Oliver Hart (1948), Lionel Robbins (1898), Harriet Martineau (1802), Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield (1859), Henry Sidgwick (1838), and Israel Kirzner (1930).