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Various approaches to solving or alleviating social problems are compared. It is argued that, when mathematical models are used, not only the building of the model but also the retranslation of the model’s outcome to the level of preciseness of the social system (dequantification) is of vital importance. The usefulness of such dequantification is illustrated with reference to Meadows’ World3-model.
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Thissen, W. (1976). Simulation Models in a Social Environment: The Need for Dequantification. In: Systems Theory in the Social Sciences. Interdisciplinary Systems Research / Interdisziplinäre Systemforschung. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-5495-5_21
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