The Foundation World Model That Might Have Been

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@jabowery

More importantly, by 2003 he had reframed it. He said the project was initially called the System Dynamics National Model because it was seen as representing the United States, but he had come to think that modeling a specific country was the wrong framing. The model, he said, now represented “a general theory of economic behavior” and could be parameterized for many industrial countries or even the developed world.

On this note, see Cybersyn:

https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/dreams-of-a-soviet-internet/3067