"Production functions involving only land, labor and capital... never work and never explain economic development."
— Kenneth Boulding

January 1, 1970

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Kenneth Boulding (1990). "Taxonomy as a Source of Error." in Methodus Vol 2. p. 17-21, as cited in: (2013) "What Boulding Said Went Wrong with Economics, A Quarter Century On"