World DynamicsExamination 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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... result , a meet- ing convened on July 20 for ten days of study , presentations , and discus- sion . The dynamic model of world interactions described in this book was devised in the early part of July to form a basis for discussion at ...
... result , a meet- ing convened on July 20 for ten days of study , presentations , and discus- sion . The dynamic model of world interactions described in this book was devised in the early part of July to form a basis for discussion at ...
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... resulting conditions in turn come back as " information " to influence further action . We often erroneously think of cause ... Result B represents a new condition of the system that changes the future influences that affect action at A ...
... resulting conditions in turn come back as " information " to influence further action . We often erroneously think of cause ... Result B represents a new condition of the system that changes the future influences that affect action at A ...
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... result will be to deepen the distress of the world as a whole and eventually to deepen the crises in the individual nations themselves . We are at the point where higher pressures in the present are necessary if insur- mountable ...
... result will be to deepen the distress of the world as a whole and eventually to deepen the crises in the individual nations themselves . We are at the point where higher pressures in the present are necessary if insur- mountable ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
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