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Guidelines for Influencing Social Policy through Strategic Computer Simulation Models

In: Power, Autonomy, Utopia

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  • Dennis L. Meadows

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My university studies first started in the field of chemistry. However, after working for half a year as a student intern in a chromatographic laboratory, I concluded that I did not wish to pursue a career in that field. I began then to search for alternatives, and I soon discovered at MIT a curriculum within the management school based on a new computer modeling technique, ‘system dynamics.’ The group developing this technique was led by Professor Jay W. Forrester, and I went to MIT to earn my PhD under his direction. After completing my degree, I joined the faculty at MIT. There my wife, Dr. Donella Meadows, and I directed a major international project that used system dynamics techniques to create a model that clarified the long-term implications of physical and demographic growth on the planet.

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  • Dennis L. Meadows, 1986. "Guidelines for Influencing Social Policy through Strategic Computer Simulation Models," Springer Books, in: Robert Trappl (ed.), Power, Autonomy, Utopia, pages 81-95, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-1-4613-2225-2_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-2225-2_5
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