System dynamics-a personal view of the first fifty years

I present a personal recollection of the history of system dynamics and observations about its present state. The article treats the history in two parts: first, my personal background and how all the threads came together to initiate the field of system dynamics; and second, the historical developm...

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Published in:System dynamics review 2007-06, Vol.23 (2-3), p.345-358
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