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System Dynamics and the Lessons of 35 Years

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A Systems-Based Approach to Policymaking

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The professional field known as system dynamics has been developing for the last 35 years and now has a world-wide and growing membership. System dynamics combines the theory, methods, and philosophy needed to analyze the behavior of systems in not only management, but also in environmental change, politics, economic behavior, medicine, engineering, and other fields. System dynamics provides a common foundation that can be applied wherever we want to understand and influence how things change through time.

This paper incorporates an edited version of most of the author’s “Lessons from System Dynamics Modeling,” System Dynamics Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1987.

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Forrester, J.W. (1993). System Dynamics and the Lessons of 35 Years. In: De Greene, K.B. (eds) A Systems-Based Approach to Policymaking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3226-2_7

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