The web of democracy: Roy Madron and John Jopling bring together democracy and scientific ideas about how systems work.
New Internationalist › Nbr. 2003, June 2003
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The web of democracy: Roy Madron and John Jopling bring together democracy and scientific ideas about how systems work.
OVER the past 50 years systems thinkers have become increasingly influential in every field of human endeavour-from astronomy to agriculture, from economics to health, from crime prevention to traffic circulation. The practical benefits of systems thinking in these fields have been immense, yet little use has been made of it in tackling the social and political problems that we face.
If systems are separated into their component parts they cannot perform the functions of which they are capable when put together in the right combination: a pile of bicycle paris cannot be ridden until assembled in the correct way; an amputated arm cannot throw a ball. A tree here, s...See the full content of this document
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