Gordon Pask vs. Kenneth Boulding
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Gordon Pask
1928 – 1996
Andrew Gordon Speedie Pask was a British cybernetician, inventor and polymath who made multiple contributions to cybernetics, educational psychology, educational technology, applied epistemology, chemical computing, architecture, and systems art. During his life, he gained three doctorate degrees. He was an avid writer, with more than two hundred and fifty publications which included a variety of journal articles, books, periodicals, patents, and technical reports.
"Holists are distinguished from serialists in terms of the number of inferential statements they produce... It is possible to distinguish the serialist from the …"
Kenneth Boulding
1910 – 1993
Kenneth Ewart Boulding was an English-born American economist, educator, peace activist, and interdisciplinary philosopher. Boulding was the author of two citation classics: The Image: Knowledge in Life and Society (1956) and Conflict and Defense: A General Theory (1962). He was co-founder of general systems theory and founder of numerous ongoing intellectual projects in economics and social science.
"Economists can take a good deal of credit for the stabilization policies which have been followed in most Western countries since 1945 with considerable success…"
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