Thinking in Systems
A Primer
A primer on seeing the world as interconnected systems, where leverage points, feedback loops, and stocks explain why problems persist and how change happens.
Donella Meadows spent her career modelling how complex systems behave, and this primer distils that work for general readers. She explains stocks, flows, and feedback loops in plain language, then shows why well-meaning fixes so often backfire and where the real leverage to change a system sits. Written for anyone trying to understand economies, ecosystems, or organisations, it is a short book that reshapes how you read the news.
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