Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993)

Boulding as a Moral Scientist

Kenneth Boulding’s AEA presidential address argued that economics is a moral science. His view derived from his general systems theory thinking, his three systems view of human society, and his early contributions to evolutionary economics. Boulding’s argument that economics could not be value-free should be distinguished from other well-known views of economics as a moral science, such as Gunn...

Friedman , Harsanyi , Rawls , Boulding – Or Somebody Else ?

This paper investigates distributive justice using a fourfold experimental design: The ignorance and the risk scenarios are combined with the self–concern and the umpire modes. We study behavioral switches between self–concern and umpire mode and investigate the goodness of ten standards of behavior. In the ignorance scenario, subjects became, on average, less inequality–averse as umpires. A wi...

Kenneth Catania

R4 Current Biology 27, R1–R18, January 9, 2017 At the time of going to press, the nominations have not included the post of a science advisor, so scientists in the US and their world-leading institutions and associations are wondering how, if at all, verifi able facts from the real world can reach the president. Writing in Science magazine, the CEO of the American Association for the Advancemen...

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Red Blood Cell (RBC) transfusion is a common medical procedure, which most often involves stored RBC units. During storage, RBC quality degrades due to various factors (“storage lesion”). This decreases cell viability in-vivo and thus often compromises transfusion efficacy. The degradation of any given unit of RBC solution varies according to several factors besides time (e.g., variability amon...

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