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Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> Gene, I found your web pages very interesting. My only issue with what you did with the Shifting the Burden archetype came at the very end, when you said the following: With this structure the effective strategy of implementing the s...

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> Bill Powers's noticing of positive feedbacks in the economy is not exactly news. Similarly, his call for a working model of the economy is, what, 20-30 years behind the times. The National Model at MIT has probably already done many ...

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> Richard, I believe the Vensim ""Molecules"" include several (at least three) that relate to pricing in much the way that you suggest. Perhaps Jim Hines, who wrote his SD dissertation on this topic and I think was ...

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> I'm pretty sure that the folks at MIT have been developing and refining what they call ""The National Model"" for years. I don't know what kind of access they provide to other scholars. I know that there have been...

Posted by ""John Voyer"" <voyer@usm.maine.edu> I have found this discussion's emphasis on data to be interesting. I have taught from Peter Block's ""Flawless Consulting"" for many years, and one of the things he emphasizes is the emotional aspect of consulting...