Categories
Category Archives: limits
reflection on limits
All material growth and material development has to reach limits inherent in the outer and inner environment of the system. These limits are derived from the carrying capacity of natural systems. A systemic definition of sustainability would be staying within … Continue reading
reflection on economic growth
In the 1980s, the famous systems thinker R. L. Ackoff wrote about his concern about our obsession with economic growth, the difference between growth (an increase in size) and development (an increase in quality) and that there can be development … Continue reading
Posted in economic theory, growth and development, limits, structure
Tagged multi-dimensionality
Leave a comment
