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... Club of Rome . There have been many attempts to find a suitable mathematical for- FIG . 5b.8 mula to express the S - shaped 74.
... Club of Rome . There have been many attempts to find a suitable mathematical for- FIG . 5b.8 mula to express the S - shaped 74.
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... Club of Rome team , at MIT , to investigate the ' World System ' ( see Chapter 12 ) . The cautions which we shall have to express when we discuss this work bring out the dangers in the application of methods of this kind . The main ...
... Club of Rome team , at MIT , to investigate the ' World System ' ( see Chapter 12 ) . The cautions which we shall have to express when we discuss this work bring out the dangers in the application of methods of this kind . The main ...
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... Club of Rome , 1971. There is an extensive controversial literature about both how its results should be interpreted ( as predic- tions of what will happen , or arguments about what might happen if ... ? ) , and about the validity of ...
... Club of Rome , 1971. There is an extensive controversial literature about both how its results should be interpreted ( as predic- tions of what will happen , or arguments about what might happen if ... ? ) , and about the validity of ...
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