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Kenneth Boulding was an economist and one of the founders of general systems theory. He led a long and varied life, being involved in the founding of peace studies as well as general systems, writing volumes of poetry as well as many academic books, and making a significant contribution to ecology and social theory as well as his original field of economics. He was a broad-minded and diverse thinker who did much both to embody a systems approach across his many disciplines, and to influence systems thinking through his work.
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Ramage, M., Shipp, K. (2020). Kenneth Boulding. In: Systems Thinkers. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7475-2_7
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