Jay Wright Forrester

Jay Wright Forrester’s distinguishedcareer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) began with pioneering work in servomechanisms and digital computation. Drawing on that work, he then developed and founded the field of system dynamics. By integrating concepts of feedback control theory and digital computation, systems dynamics offered a new modeling approach for simulating the behavior of social systems. Such models provide insights into the behavior of complex systems and help the user to design effective policies to improve system performance. Jay established system dynamics as an academic discipline at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He led path-breaking research applying system dynamics to critical business and public policy problems, from high-tech start-ups to urban policy and global development. System dynamics is now one of the most widely used systems approaches in the world, with academics and practitioners on every continent pursuing work in diverse fields. His writings continue to inspire the field and he remains actively involved in its development.

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[10]  Erik Mosekilde.  Topics in Nonlinear Dynamics: Applications to Physics, Biology and Economic Systems , 1997 .

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[18]  Jay W. Forrester,et al.  Industrial Dynamics---After the First Decade , 1968 .

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[21]  J. Forrester.  Principles of systems : text and workbook, chapters 1 through 10 , 1968 .

[22]  Jay W. Forrester,et al.  System dynamics—a personal view of the first fifty years , 2007 .

[23]  Jay W. Forrester,et al.  System dynamics—the next fifty years , 2007 .

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[27]  Murray Stewart.  Groping in the dark , 1991, Nature.

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[34]  Jay W. Forrester,et al.  The debate on World Dynamics: A response to Nordhaus , 1974 .

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[37]  J. Sterman.  A behavioral model of the economic long wave , 1985 .

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[39]  John N. Warfield,et al.  World dynamics , 1973 .

[40]  J. Forrester.  Industrial Dynamics: A Major Breakthrough for Decision Makers , 2012 .

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[42]  Jay W. Forrester.  CHURCHES AT THE TRANSITION BETWEEN GROWTH AND WORLD EQUILIBRIUM , 1972 .

[43]  M. Augier,et al.  Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision‐Making Processes in Administrative Organizations , 2002 .

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[46]  Manolya Kavakli,et al.  The Game Master , 2005 .

[47]  Nancy Roberts.  Teaching Dynamic Feedback Systems Thinking: An Elementary View , 1978 .

[48]  Craufurd D. Goodwin,et al.  Economic Issues of the Eighties , 1980 .

[49]  Jay Wright Forrester,et al.  Urban Dynamics , 1969 .

[50]  Jay W. Forrester,et al.  “The” model versus a modeling “process” , 1985 .

[51]  Steven H. Strogatz,et al.  Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos , 2024 .

[52]  D. Meadows,et al.  Beyond the Limits , 1992 .