* How can mechanisms for their success be made more effective? * How can obstacles to their success be removed? * Why are the natural correction mechanisms failing?
#Critique of donella meadows thinking in systems series#
The secret is to begin not with a heroic takeover, but with a series of questions. This option, helping the system to help itself, can be much cheaper and easier than taking over and running the system-something liberal politicians don’t seem to understand. The problem can be avoided up front by intervening in such a way as to strengthen the ability of the system to shoulder its own burdens. on welfare, foreign aid, oil, alcohol) in systems: You get a sense exactly ‘what’ she’s holding back from time to time when she lets this slip, such as in the following section where she discusses the problem of dependency (e.g. Reading the book also makes you feel like Meadows is holding back a lot. To get a sense of scale, I think there are more than 100 of these in the book. Meadows does this superbly, beginning from the most conceptually basic level of systems knowledge, but even having this knowledge already didn’t put me off those chapters because of her engaging writing style and liberal peppering of fascinating quotes and engaging case studies all throughout the book. Thinking in Systems is a book by the late American environmental scientist Donella Meadows whose primary goal can be summarized as the translation of the essential concepts required to understand the counterintuitive entities known as systems into a common language for a common audience. I read the whole book yesterday, and can confidently assert that I made a great decision.
I recently borrowed this book on recommendation from a friend, knowing nothing about it or its author that the title didn’t give away.
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