World dynamicsWright-Allen Press, 1971 - 142 pages |
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... Computer Models of Social Systems The approach used here to examine the world system combines the strength of the human mind with the strength of ... model description . The computer gives Introduction 15 1 Computer Models of Social Systems.
... Computer Models of Social Systems The approach used here to examine the world system combines the strength of the human mind with the strength of ... model description . The computer gives Introduction 15 1 Computer Models of Social Systems.
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... model is given here in two equivalent forms - text and equations . Those readers who are not familiar with algebraic ... computer model , because it must be stated explicitly , makes a theory unambiguous . The assumptions within the ...
... model is given here in two equivalent forms - text and equations . Those readers who are not familiar with algebraic ... computer model , because it must be stated explicitly , makes a theory unambiguous . The assumptions within the ...
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... computer into production without first making laboratory tests . Such models ... model - building experimental phase . But I am confident , and substantial ... model is unambiguous . It is a language that is clearer and more precise than ...
... computer into production without first making laboratory tests . Such models ... model - building experimental phase . But I am confident , and substantial ... model is unambiguous . It is a language that is clearer and more precise than ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Structure of the World System | 17 |
A World Model Structure and Assumptions | 31 |
Copyright | |
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1970 conditions accumulation agricultural land assumed assumptions behavior billion 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 cause Chapter CI=C CIAF CIGN1 CIMT Club of Rome coefficient computer model crowding ratio curve death rate normal decline DRFM dynamic ECIR effect effective-capital-investment ratio equations equilibrium exponential growth food production food ratio food supply FPMT FRACTION/YEAR in-agriculture fraction increase industrialization INTERPOLATION limit LOGICAL FUNCTION material standard mental models MULTIPLIER DIMENSIONLESS natural-resource Natural-resource-usage rate negative loop NR=N NREM NREMT NRUN1 POLN1 POLAT pollution absorption pollution crisis pollution ratio POLR POLLUTION UNITS pollution-absorption population and capital population density pressures QL-Q ratio CIR RATIO DIMENSIONLESS result rise Section sector shortage social systems SQUARE KILOMETERS standard of living system levels TABHL TABLE LOOK tion units per person UNITS/PERSON/YEAR UNITS/YEAR usage rate variable world model world population world system