Sources of Boulding's Optimism Around the Future (1981)
There are processes, both in simple systems in folk learning and in complex systems in scientific learning, which tend towards the continual elimination of error as time goes on, so that people's images of the world are likely to have an increasing proportion of truth. ... It is the asymmetry between truth and error in the images of the human race that is perhaps the most basic source of societal and cultural evolution.
"Policy Implications of Evolutionary Economics," Evolutionary Economics, Sage, 1981, p. 175.
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