Influences which work in opposition to sustainable capitalism and influences that might work to further promote it.

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

There are three types of models most commonly used.

This common archetype of systems that include relapse or recidivism allows exploration of the unintended effects of increasing upstream capacity and swamping downstream capacity. The increase in the relapse rate eventually returns to swamp upstream capacity as well. A social welfare example, based on a TANF case study, from How Small System Dynamics Models Can Help the Policy Process. N. Ghaffarzadegan, J. Lyneis, GP Richardson. System Dynamics Review 27,1 (2011) 22-44 Conference version at http://bit.ly/HlxtZj

To develop insights regarding a situation of interest there are a number of things should be considered to ensure a view of the relevant influences.

All you wanted to do was put a bird feeder in your yard to attract birds and make for a more pleasant morning. And...

To develop insights regarding a situation of interest there are a number of things should be considered to ensure a view of the relevant influences.

Original Insight (#1366) by Gene Bellinger

All the following have a common characteristic.

What do activities of these images have in common?

This model depicts the interactions of Aesop's Fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

This model is derived from the paper "Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems that Never Happened: Creating and Sustaining Process Improvement" by Nelson P. Repenning and John D Sterman. See Insight 752 for a causal loop version of this model.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

There are about a dozen known systems archetypes with an interesting set of relationships among them.

All the following have a common characteristic.

There's actually more to filling a swimming pool with water than you might realize.

The interaction of a population of Moose and Wolves.

Based on 1990 SDR Article. Control systems act to make their own input match internal standards or reference signals. Competent control systems create illusions of stimulus response causality. Stimulus-response theory can approximate the relationship between disturbance and action, but it can't predict the consequences of behavior. These consequences are maintained despite disturbances. See also Double loop learning and Nurse Thinking Insights

Introduce the concept of modeling and simulation.

All the following have a common characteristic.

The structure responsible for rabbit population growth.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

What do activities of these images have in common?