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Editor-in-Chief: Carlos Gershenson
Founding Editor: Gottfried Mayer

The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General Systems
Theory, University Press of Colorado
 









Summary:        This book explores the development of general systems theory and
the individuals who gathered together around that idea to form the Society for
General Systems Research. In examining the life and work of the SGSR's five
founding members (including Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Kenneth Boulding and James
Grier Miller), Hammond traces the emergence of systems ideas across a broad
range of disciplines in the mid-twentieth century. A metaphor and a framework,
the systems concept as articulated by its earliest proponents highlights
relationship and interconnectedness among the biological, ecological, social,
psychological, and technological dimensions of our increasingly complex lives.
(...)
Source: The Science of Synthesis: Exploring the Social Implications of General
Systems Theory[
http://www.amazon.com/dp/160732069X?tag=compldiges-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=160732069X&adid=0JN6548BJA3A476B6X6R&
], Debra Hammond, University Press of Colorado, 2010/10/15
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