World DynamicsThe "system dynamics" approach to economics as developed at MIT. |
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... environment to dissipate pollution . This book examines the structure of countervailing forces at the world level when growth overloads the environment . The world will encounter one of several possible alternative futures depending on ...
... environment to dissipate pollution . This book examines the structure of countervailing forces at the world level when growth overloads the environment . The world will encounter one of several possible alternative futures depending on ...
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Jay W. Forrester, Jay Wright Forrester. environment than there is of population . The temporarily higher standard of living that often comes from industrialization is now sought by most cultures . Damage to the environment is being ...
Jay W. Forrester, Jay Wright Forrester. environment than there is of population . The temporarily higher standard of living that often comes from industrialization is now sought by most cultures . Damage to the environment is being ...
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... environmental capacity of the earth . The most important question is how the influences to restrain growth are to be ... environment , growth continues until some other limit is en- countered . Technology may succeed in pushing back the ...
... environmental capacity of the earth . The most important question is how the influences to restrain growth are to be ... environment , growth continues until some other limit is en- countered . Technology may succeed in pushing back the ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
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1970 conditions assumed assumptions behavior birth rate normal birth-control program BRFM BRN1 capital investment CAPITAL UNITS CAPITAL UNITS/PERSON CAPITAL-INVESTMENT DISCARD capital-investment ratio CAPITAL-INVESTMENT-IN-AGRICULTURE FRACTION Chapter CI=C CIAF CIGN1 Club of Rome computer model crowding ratio curve decline DRFM ECIR effect effective-capital-investment ratio environment equations equilibrium exponential growth food production food ratio food supply FPMT in-agriculture fraction increase industrialization INTERPOLATION Limits to Growth LOGICAL FUNCTION Main Street Cambridge material standard mental models MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural resources natural-resource Natural-resource-usage rate negative loop NR=N NREM NREMT NRUN1 POLN1 physical limits physical stress POLAT pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution-absorption population and capital population density PRESENT ORIGINAL pressures processes QL-Q ratio CIR RATIO DIMENSIONLESS rise Section sector shortage social stress social systems standard of living structure system levels TABHL TABLE LOOK tion units per person UNITS/PERSON/YEAR UNITS/YEAR usage rate variable world model world population world system