Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Source: 1950s, The Skills of the Economist, 1958, p. 183
“A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 25
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