Illustrating Economics

<p>This volume is a sampling of quips verses drawings and even the music of one of the most original and versatile minds of the twentieth century Kenneth Boulding prominent economist lecturer and author.</p><p>The driving force behind Kenneth Boulding's wideranging book is that he truly en joys all that he does. Indeed his greatest accomplishment may very well be that he was a profoundly happy man. This is reflected in works that are laced with beauty wit and extraordinary imagery-works that are often composed and appeared in the most unexpected of places. In the midst of one of the classic textbooks of his generally staid profession <em>Economic Analysis</em> Boulding introduced the bathtub theorem. <em>Illustrating Economics: Beasts Ballads and Aphorisms</em> is a collection of similar instances and as such it is fun.</p><p>The reader should be advised that the book contains traps. Boulding coats his ideas with sugar to please his audience as well as promote consumption. He describes peace as a drab girl with an olive branch corsage whom no red-blooded American (or Russian) could conceivably warm up to. The reader smiles at the recognition of the truth inherent within the image and ponders the irony of why so fine a state as peace should be regarded as dull and so ugly a condition as war should be regarded as romantic. This book is for enjoyment but it should carry the following warning: Caution-Reading this may be stimulating to your intellect.</p>