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- Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:56 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Characterizing System Dynamics
- Replies: 33
- Views: 43075
Characterizing System Dynamics
Posted by ""Finn Jackson"" <finn.jackson@tangley.com> Hello, Everyone else on this discussion list uses their real name. I do not see why ""The Invigilator"" should be any different. Who are you? Finn Jackson Posted by ""Finn Jackson"" <fin...
- Thu Nov 24, 2005 2:43 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Agents, Emergence, Evolution, and SD
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10565
Agents, Emergence, Evolution, and SD
Posted by ""Finn Jackson"" <finn.jackson@tangley.com> I'm not quite sure what question Justin was asking here. But in response to his specific ""Does anyone know [Kaufman's] views on this?"" I would say that to me the quote: ""Evolution is not just '...
- Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:08 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Characterizing System Dynamics
- Replies: 33
- Views: 43075
Characterizing System Dynamics
Posted by ""Finn Jackson"" <finn.jackson@tangley.com> To me there is just one fundamental belief: 1) there is cause and effect: A can cause B The rest then follows. Because A can also cause C and D. And H, R and W can also cause B we need to stop and think about what we think the...
- Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:13 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Growth and sustainability
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13164
Growth and sustainability
Posted by ""Finn Jackson"" <finn.jackson@tangley.com> Great and important questions, which I think boil down to: ""Is the link between economic growth and consumption of resources modified by what is consumed?"" - if someone spends $100 on music downloads, thi...
- Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:12 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Marketing driven growth and decline
- Replies: 15
- Views: 15186
Marketing driven growth and decline
Posted by ""Finn Jackson"" <finn.jackson@tangley.com> Kim's query raises a number of points. I will take them in reverse order. FIRST: ""I am not sure it is common for customers to be lost *because* they were not marketed to. Customers leave a supplier for other reasons...
- Sat Jul 16, 2005 11:50 am
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Rates of entrepreneurship
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3454
Rates of entrepreneurship
Posted by ""Finn Jackson"" <finn.jackson@tangley.com> Greetings all, Does anybody know of SD work done in the area of ""rates of entrepreneurship"" within an economy? In other words, the key factors affecting the percentage of a population thinking about start...
- Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:44 pm
- Forum: SD Mailing List Archive
- Topic: Wisdom of Crowds
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15472
Wisdom of Crowds
Posted by ""Finn Jackson"" <finn.jackson@tangley.com> An interesting question, and answers. I can easily see that ""two heads are better than one"". But at what point does the *wisdom* of crowds transform into the *madness* of crowds, and why? (btw: Google fou...