Kenneth E. Boulding Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Loss, Gains, Conflict

  "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1958.

• Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Mean, Ends, Should

  "Principles of Economic Policy". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1958.

• Don't go to great trouble to optimize something that never should be done at all. Aim to enhance total systems properties, such as creativity, stability, diversity, resilience, and sustainability - whether they are easily measured or not.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Creativity, Diversity, Resilience

  Attributed in "Systems Thinkers" by Ramage Magnus and Karen Shipp, (p. 116), 2009.

• Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Simple, Brain, Nervous

• I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Littles, Satisfaction, Arguing

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