Cybernetics and system dynamics: Impacts on public policy

Kybernetes

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-140

  Kennedy, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Public policy; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SYSTEM THEORY;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; NON LINEAR; STATE OF THE ART; SYSTEM DYNAMICS;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 79955601411     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684921111117960     Document Type: Review

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