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I was having a hard time figuring out how to begin when I came across an excerpt from an interview with my MIT colleague Professor Jay Forrester, who is either the Christopher Columbus or the Dr. Strangelove of this business, depending on how you look at it. Forrester said he would like to see about a hundred people, the most gifted and best qualified in the world, brought together in a team to make a psychosocial analysis of the problem of world equilibrium. He thought it would take about ten years. When he was asked to define the composition of his problem-solving group, Forrester said: “Above all it shouldn’t be mostly made up of professors. One would include people who had been successful in their personal careers, whether in politics, business, or anywhere else. We should also need radical philosophers, but we should take care to keep out representatives of the social sciences. Such people always want to go to the bottom of a particular problem. What we want to look at are the problems caused by interactions.”
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Solow, R.M. (1973). Is the end of the world at hand?. In: Weintraub, A., Schwartz, E., Aronson, J.R. (eds) The Economic Growth Controversy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02214-4_2
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