Coming up with 'Integrative Systems'
I got very interested in the question as to why some conflicts were creative and some were not because if became very clear that conflict itself wasn't necessarily a bad thing. It could be very creative. But on the other hand, it could also be terribly destructive. Then what was the difference? And is was what got me into the theory of the integrative system. The general theory that I came up with was that if you had conflict within an integrative setting it could be creative.
Mott, Tracy, "Kenneth Boulding Interviewed by Tracy Mott, 28-29 March 1991," Review of Political Economy, 4.3 (1992), pp. 341-74.
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