Showing posts with label system dynamics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label system dynamics. Show all posts

Monday, December 29, 2008

Getting more out of life

Enjoying one's work seems to be part of it.

MIT OpenCourseWare: Sloan School: System Dynamics Self-Study Readings

The kids here enjoyed their work with complex systems, staying late after school to see how the simulations turned out.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Why Poor Countries Are Poor

Corruption and an astonishing series of negative feedback loops, it turns out.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/33258.html

The system dynamics folks over at PA Consulting would have a field day with this one. Too bad Cameroon can't afford them... maybe that's where the World Bank should step in.

(thanks, globalchange.umich.edu, for the spaghetti diagram image)