World Dynamics

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Wright-Allen Press, 1971 - Demography - 142 pages
Examination of the structure of countervailing forces such as population growth, food production, capital investment, natural resources depletion, pollution, etc., at world level when exponential growth rate overburdens the environment - simulates world growth trends by means of a large-scale computer model and shows that a global equilibrium could be achieved if social policies and programmes were chosen taking into account the dynamic characteristics of world social systems. Flow charts.

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... indicated fraction is computed from the capital fraction indicated by food ratio CFIFR multiplied by the capital- investment - from - quality ratio CIQR . The latter allows for a weighting of the quality - of - life factors between food ...
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... INDICATED BY FOOD RATIO ( DIMENSIONLESS ) CAPITAL - INVESTMENT - FROM - QUALITY RATIO ( DIMENSIONLESS ) CAPITAL - INVESTMENT - IN - AGRICULTURE FRACTION , INITIAL ( DIMENSIONLESS ) 3.36 Capital Fraction Indicated by Food Ratio CFIFR ...
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... INDICATED - BY - FOOD - RATIO TABLE FOOD RATIO ( DIMENSIONLESS ) capital allocated to food production dependent on the food supply and to temper this with an adjustment mechanism which operates according to whether food or material ...

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Contents

Introduction
1
Structure of the World System
17
A World Model Structure and Assumptions
31
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About the author (1971)

Jay Wright Forrester was born on his family's cattle ranch in Nebraska on July 14, 1918. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska and graduate studies in electrical engineering at M.I.T. In 1940, he went to work at M.I.T.'s new Servomechanisms Laboratory, doing research in servomechanism theory and feedback control systems. During World War II, the laboratory did much of its work for the military by developing servomechanisms for controlling radar antennas and gun mounts. He worked for M.I.T. for about 70 years. His insights into both computing and organizations helped give rise to a field of computer modeling that examines the behavior of things as specific as a corporation and as broad as global growth. He wrote several books including Urban Dynamics, World Dynamics, Industrial Dynamics, and Principles of Systems. He died from complications of prostate cancer on November 16, 2016 at the age of 98.

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TitleWorld Dynamics
AuthorJay W. Forrester
Edition2
PublisherWright-Allen Press, 1971
Original fromthe University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized18 Jan 2008
ISBN1563270595, 9781563270598
Length142 pages
  
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