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HANDY Model of Societal Collapse from Ecological Economics Paper

see also D Cunha's model at IM-15085 (Spanish)

Human and Nature Dynamics of Societal Inequality

18 5 months ago

Barry Richmond's model describing behavior and anxiety theory for the Milgram experiment. Richmond, B. (1977). “Generalization with Individual Uniqueness: Modeling the Milgram Experiments.” Technical Report D-2508-2, System Dynamics Group, Sloan School of Management, MIT.

Personal versus Situational Dynamics: Implications of Barry Richmond’s Models of Classic Experiments in Social Psychology by James K. Doyle, Khalid Saeed, Jeanine Skorinko Department of Social Science and Policy Studies Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2008

See also CLE Class Notes 2014

Milgram Experiment

Geoff McDonnell

From blog entry understandingsociety

Meaning and Causation. Expanded from IM-1163

Social Mechanisms

Geoff McDonnell

9 months ago

Launchpad about reorganisation based on Bogdanov's Tektology general theory of organization, perceptual control theory, personal history and current concerns, linked to the modern (or historical) organization of biology and political economy.

Personalised Reorganization Bogdanov Biology and Political Economy

Geoff McDonnell

3 weeks ago

From Padgett and Powell's Draft Book Chapter 2003 Figure F Dynamic interaction of actors products and relations. See also their 2012 book on The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

Dynamic Feedbacks in the Life Sciences

Geoff McDonnell

Work in progress based on PA Sorokin's Reconstruction of Humanity, moving from egoistic to altruistic personalities, social institutions and an idealistic cultural supersystem

Sorokin Personality

Geoff McDonnell

6 months ago

HANDY Model of Societal Collapse from Ecological Economics Paper

see also D Cunha's model at IM-15085

Clone of Human and Nature Dynamics of Societal Inequality

Holger Arndt

Adapted from Lane, David C. and Husemann, E. (2008) Steering without Circe: attending to reinforcing loops in social systems. System dynamics review, 24 (1). pp. 37-61. ISSN 0883-706 paper abstract See also Conceptual hybrid mapping IM

Structure Agency

Geoff McDonnell

5 months ago

Book summary of Albert O Hirschman's 1982 book, explaining cycles of collective public action.

Shifting involvements

Geoff McDonnell

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The cycle of the human beings from two people falling in love, then the woman getting pregnant, then woman giving birth, the child is taken to school, then the child graduate from the school and finally the the child gets matured an falls in love.

human life cycle