Some contemporary systems theorists have chosen to ignore or at least downplay the early work of Kenneth Boulding. This group has advanced the level and scope of systems thinking by building more analytically sophisticated models and extending the range of issues that the interdisciplinary...

Built on the fictional concept of equilibrium, mainstream economics provides a method of analysis which, when paired with the calculus, enables relatively easy identification of maximum and minimum values. Lacking empirical evidence of its behavioral assumptions, the profession accepts such...

Is it possible to teach mainstream microeconomic principles which prepare students for upper division economics courses while also exposing them to the well known heterodox dissent of Veblen, Galbraith, Boulding, Myrdal, Schumacher, and others? This article offers a method for presenting in a...

A comprehensive survey of the professional literature in the fields of archaeology and anthropology documents the usefulness of the Veblen-Ayres dichotomy in analyzing early human progress and forces that opposed it. Specifically, technological advance during prehistory was slow because of...

Built on the fictional concept of equilibrium, mainstream economics provides a method of analysis that, when paired with the calculus, enables relatively easy identification of maximum and minimum values. Lacking empirical evidence of its behavioral assumptions, the profession accepts such...