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Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity
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Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity

by Michael C. Jackson
April 2019
Intermediate to advanced
728 pages
28h 12m
English
Wiley
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Index

  • “addiction to prescription,”  235, 236, 245
  • agent‐based modeling  121–122
  • AGIL scheme  46
  • Albacete, M.  191
  • Algraini, S.  475
  • Allende, S.  291, 292
  • Althusser, L.  53, 544
  • American “philosophical pragmatism,”  477
  • Ammon, S.  447
  • analogue models, HST  182
  • analytical competence  494
  • analytic dualism  62, 255
  • analytic models, HST  182, 183
  • Anglo‐French Concorde project  401–402
  • animated systems  376
  • The Anthropocene, 39
  • Apollo space programme  352
  • “applied existentialism,”  11
  • applied systems thinking
    • development of  166–168
    • methodology in  179
  • Archer, M.  61–62, 467, 584
  • Aristotle  3
  • Armson, R.  4, 421‐422
  • Aron, R.  45
  • Ashby, W.R.  89, 97–99, 102, 108, 308, 450
  • Ashton, M.  545
  • assumption rating chart  357
  • austere SD  238
  • autopoietic systems  33, 34, 63
  • b
  • Baburoglu, O.N.  286, 287
  • Bacon, F.  16
  • Bahro, R.  519
  • balancing loops  244–245
  • Baldwin, J.  11
  • Balibar, E.  53
  • Bamforth, K.W.  265, 273
  • Barabba, V.P.  343, 344, 347, 354
  • Barnard, C.  47, 48
  • Barrett, S.  101
  • Barron, L.  338
  • Barthes, R.  48
  • Barton, J.  287, 587, 588
  • Bassi, ...
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