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Three Faces of Power offers the best of Kenneth Boulding: bold, innovative perspectives on past and present concepts. His creative analysis lays the groundwork for important future debates about power. Boulding explains that power can be divided into three major categories: threat power; economic power; and integrative power. Turning general deterrence theory on its head, he argues that the greatest error is to regard threat power as fundamental, for it is not effective unless it is reinforced by economic and integrative power. His conclusion has wide-ranging application to everything from the nuclear weapons debate to intimate personal relationships. Power. The word alone evokes images of great empires, of human misery, of personal triumphs and failures. Yet power has been--and continues to be--one of the most misunderstood concepts known to mankind. Now, in a fascinating new volume, Kenneth Boulding marshalls his remarkable intellectual talents to explore and analyze the nature of power. Three Faces of Power offers the best of Kenneth Boulding: bold, innovative perspectives on past and present concepts. His creative analysis lays the groundwork for important future debates about power. Boulding explains that power can be divided into three major categories: o Threat power, destructive in nature and applied particularly to political life. o Economic power, resting largely on the power to produce and exchange items--and on the constantly changing distribution of property ownership. o Integrative power, based on such relationships as legitimacy, respect, affection, love, community, and identity. Turning general deterrence theory on its head, Boulding argues that the greatest error is to regard threat power as fundamental, for it is not effective unless it is reinforced by economic and integrative power. His conclusion has wide-ranging application to everything from the nuclear weapons debate to intimate personal relationships. Three Faces of Power provides a refreshingly optimistic and challenging call to a world future secured through the power of human interaction and knowledge. It will prove essential reading for students and academics in all areas of the social sciences, especially peace studies, political science, sociology, family studies, communication, organizational studies, social psychology, and international relations. "With deft strokes of wit and delightfully apt analogies Boulding shares his profound insights into the most important component of human relations--power; its manifestations in brutal exploitation, in give and take relations among equals, and in mutually nurturing cooperating human beings. Boulding′s inimitable charm shines through the plain language of common experience on every page of this book for everyone." --Anatol Rapoport, University of Toronto "Original, as always." --Future Survey "This book is vintage Boulding. Few people writing today in social science, much less in economics, give evidence of the broad erudition which Boulding invariably displays. He chooses examples of the points he wishes to make with breathtaking leaps through history and culture. The reader who dips into this book by Boulding is in for a challenging and thought-provoking experience." --The Journal of Economic Issues "Innovative and fascinating." --The Futurist "This is an immensely charming book, easily readable, written in a plain, almost folksy prose-style....It glides effortlessly over its topic." --Organization Studies "The value of reading this book is that of personal discovery. Besides the many glittering economic ideas and suggestions lying about like diamonds in a field, his essay provokes self-knowledge. You as an economist will know a lot more about yourself and the failures and successes of your profession after reading this book." --American Journal of Agricultural Economics "Three Faces of Power is Kenneth Boulding′s innovative and thought-provoking study of power, in which he categorically rejects the traditional importance of threat (destructive) power. Instead, he offers a bold, new thesis: ′It is integrative power that is the most dominant and significant form of power, in the sense that neither threat power nor economic power can achieve very much in the absence of legitimacy, which is one of the more important aspects of integrative power.′ . . . Well written and provocative, Three Faces of Power is both scholarly and down to earth. Undeniably, Three Faces of Power will stimulate much discussion about power, but, equally important, it is an eloquent plea for peace." --International Journal on World Peace

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• Introduction
• The Nature of Power
• Power as a Social Structure
• The Objects of Power
• The Pathologies of Power
• Personal Destructive Power
• Personal Economic Power
• Personal Integrative Power
• The Dynamics of Personal Power
• Organizations for Destruction
• Economic Power in Organizations
• Organizations For Integrative Power
• The Dynamics of Organizational Power
• Power in Physical and Biological Evolution
• Power in Societal Evolution
• Power and the Future

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Kenneth Boulding is one of the most prolific, provocative, and highly regarded economists of our time. Born in England in 1910, he received his M.A. at Oxford University and moved to the United States in 1937. Since then he has authored or coauthored over two dozen books and has taught at a number of leading universities. Currently he is affiliated with the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado.

In an early essay, "Is Economics Necessary?" Boulding argued that economics is important not merely as it relates to the marketplace but because it is a part of virtually all other human activities. Many of his works are extensions of this theme. As a result, his writings cover an astonishing variety of topics, including ecology and religion. His pioneering efforts to apply economic concepts to the areas of social conflict, peace, and disarmament have established him as one of the founders of the school of conflict resolution.

Boulding's early work, Economic Analysis (1941), is regarded as a classic overview and survey of the field. Many of his other works, including A Reconstruction of Economics (1950) and Conflict and Defense (1962), were once required reading for graduate students in economics. Others, such as Beyond Economics (1968) and Economics as a Science (1970), are collections of shorter essays covering such diverse topics as politics, social justice, and ethical problems, and are intended for a broader audience. The Image (1956), a theory of human behavior based on perceptions of the world, has received critical praise from all quarters and is perhaps his best-known work among noneconomists.

Boulding has received nearly every significant award or recognition in the field of economics, and he has been the recipient of 25 honorary degrees from universities around the world. In his spare moments, he enjoys poetry, sketching, and watercolor painting.

(Bowker Author Biography)