“Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same kind of process by which we learn our common values. Purely personal tastes, indeed, can only survive in a culture which tolerates them, that is, which has a common value that private tastes of certain kinds should be allowed.”

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Source: 1960s, Economics As A Moral Science, 1969, p. 12

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British-American economist 1910–1993

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