Remembering David Loye by Allan Leslie Combs

“… Systems theorist, consciousness researcher, and neuropsychologist Allan Leslie Combs presents a brief remembrance of a mentor who became a true friend. …”
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THE ECOLOGY OF LAW : toward a legal system in tune with nature and community / by Capra, Fritjof, author, Mattei, Ugo, author

“…In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author, physicist, and systems theorist Fritjof Capra and distinguished legal scholar Ugo Mattei show how, by incorporating concepts from modern science, the law can become an integral part of bringing about a better world. …”

The Mystery of Pleasure: Thoughts on Teaching and learning Sex and Gender Relations in a Democratic Montessori Elementary Environment by Matthew Henry R. RICH

“…Dr Riane Eisler is a contemporary feminist systems theorist whose 'partnership model' of sexual politics embraces (and, in fact, openly endorses) the tenets of the Montessori approach.…”
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Commentaries on "Darwin’s Lost Theory: Bridge to a Better World" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ervin Laszlo, Ralph Abraham, Allan Combs, Alfonso Montuori, Mae Wan Ho, Stanley Salthe, Raymond Bradley, Humberto Maturana, Paul MacLean, Daniel Levine

“… Evolutionary systems theorist David Loye wrote many pioneering and engaging books throughout his lifetime; one of the best-known is Darwin’s Lost Theory: Bridge to a Better World (2007), a book that explores and overturns the longstanding notions of distinct Darwinism based upon a ‘survival of the fittest’ human mentality. …”
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INVIGORATING WORLD SYSTEM THEORY as CRITICAL THEORY: Exploring Philosophical Foundations and Postpositivist Contributions by Kurt Burch

“…World system theory comprises two distinct lines of inquiry: macro-social studies of historical world-systems and ideological critique. World system theorists often shun ideological critique, but for two reasons I argue it must be foremost. …”
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Shortcomings and Limitations of Identity Politics and Intersectionality in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street by Lilijana Burcar

“… The article offers a systematic critique of identity politics and intersectionality that today dominate Western mainstream literary theory and Anglo-Saxon literary production by bringing to the fore a much overlooked critical intervention on the part of materialist (literary) system theorists and Western Marxist feminists. It then dissects the ways in which the trappings of identity politics and its upgraded version of intersectionality are manifested in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street, with the class in the triad of class, race and gender eventually weakened and removed from view. …”
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On Open Systems by VICTORIA CHICK

“…It is evident that there are many different criteria which may define open systems. Theorists differ in their emphasis on one or other criterion. …”
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On history Becoming History: The Case of World and New Global History by Bruce Mazlish

“…The development of World History after the two World Wars is sketched, and a brief account given of the approaches used by William McNeill and his adherents and by world systems theorists. The differences between World History and a recent initiative, New Global History, are then accentuated, and a short account given as to the nature of the latter and its achievements, stressing, for example, its "outer space" perspective, the role of satellite communications, and the synergy and synchrony of its various elements. …”
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THE SOUTHERN AEGEAN SYSTEM by Ina Berg

“…Archaeologists and world-system theorists alike both argued that Wallerstein had disregarded evidence of interconnected, hierarchical systems in prehistoric times (Schneider 1977; Chase-Dunn & Hall 1991, 1997; Kardulias 1999a). …”
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The World-System and the Earth System by Alf Hornborg

“…The failure among Marxist and world-system theorists to properly account for this central aspect of capitalist accumulation can be traced to the pervasive assumption that market commodities have objective values that may exceed their price. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review of the Impact of Complexity Theory on Applied Economics by Philip Haynes, David Alemna

“…Agent Based Models (ABMs) were popular, as were general systems models following the practice of the late system theorist, Donella Meadows. Applications were interdisciplinary and diverse, including world system models that linked macroeconomics to climate and sustainability, as contrast with micro and meso models trying to explain the complexity of agent-based behaviour on specific organisations or higher-level processes.…”
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Social Media’s Function in Organizations: A Functional Analysis Approach by Amy Reitz

“…System theorists believe that organizations that function as an open system have a greater chance of survival than organizations that function as a closed system due to the exchange of inputs and outputs between the organization and its publics. …”
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The origins and expansion of the male breadwinner family: The case of nineteenth-century Britain. by Horrell, S, Humphries, J

“…In contrast, dual systems theorists emphasize demand conditions in terms of institutional constraints on women's and children's employment exemplified by the exclusionary strategies of chauvinist trade unions, labour legislation which limited the opportunities of women and children, and the legitimation of men's wage demands by references to their need for a family wage. …”

LA DEMOCRACIA Y EL REPLIEGUE DEL INDIVIDUO: ORGANICISMO Y CORPORATIVISMO = DEMOCRACY AND THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE INDIVIDUAL: ORGANICISM AND CORPORATISM by Mariano García Canales

“…</p><p><em>The Restoration crisis coincided with a time of profound transformation of the central political tenets of the liberal parliamentary system. Theorists sought new groundings for a central theme: political representation. …”
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Epistemological aspects of the economic control by Giuseppe Galassi

“…There is often no possible control through ‘correspondence’ with definite aspects of reality, economic-financial events themselves. System theorists employ many concepts that correspond to ‘independent reality’ only through ‘indicator hypotheses’ such as ‘business income’ magnitude, the best proxy of the economic efficiency of the ‘business entity’.…”
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