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Boulding was one of very few major economists who devoted significant time and major publications to the economics of the Nonprofit Sector (NPS) or Civil society (CS). He invented the term grants economy, which he contrasted with the market or exchange economy, studied by 99%+ of other economists at the time (1966). He was elected president of the American Economics Association (1968), a highly prestigious honor. Boulding Co-founded (1968) and was long-time (1970–1989) President of the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy (ASGE), which still exists as a small but persisting set of economists following his lead.
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Kenneth Boulding was born January 18, 1910, in Liverpool, England. He graduated in 1931 from Oxford University with first class honors in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (B.Litt.). Although he did some post-graduate work elsewhere, he never earned a higher degree. In 1936, Boulding emigrated permanently to the United...
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Boulding, K. E. (1953). The organizational revolution. New York: Harper.
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Harris, B., Morris, A., Ascough, R. S., Chikoto, G. L., Elson, P. R., Mc Loughlin, J., Muukkonen, M., PospÃÅ¡ilová, T., Roka, K., Smith, D. H., Soteri-Proctor, A., Tumanova, A., & Yu, P. (2016). Chapter 1: History of associations and volunteering. In D. H. Smith, R. A. Stebbins, & J. Grotz (Eds.), The Palgrave handbook of volunteering, civic participation, and nonprofit associations. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Smith, D.H. (2020). Boulding, Kenneth Ewart. In: List, R., Anheier, H., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99675-2_643-1
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