Nested Quote by Rich Jolly

General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that…

— Marilyn Ferguson

The aim ... is to provide a clear and rigorous basis for determining when a causal ordering can be said to hold between two…

— Herbert Simon

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

— Ray Dalio

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms…

— Serj Tankian

The end of the world: the wholesale internal introversion upon itself of the noosphere, which has simultaneously reached the uttermost limit of its complexity…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The behavior of the economy as a whole, at the aggregate, macro-level, is built up from the individual equations at the micro-level.

— Paul Ormerod

“Generally, the modeler should look for natural boundaries of the system to capture the most important and impactful structure.”

— Rich Jolly

Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between…

— Gordon Brown

A system is a set of things people, cells, molecules, or whatever interconnected in such a way that they produce their own pattern of…

— Donella Meadows

One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps in both…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

It is clear that the building of models is not a purely mechanical process but requires skill of a high order - not merely…

— Kenneth E. Boulding