Reflections of a Political Scientist

Personal reflections on an unintentional behavioral scientist

It is unlikely that prior to reaching age 40 János Aczél anticipated any challenging questions about functional equations arising from the behavioral and social sciences. Yet, increasingly, behavioral and social scientists have come up with difficult equations. To be sure, the earliest equations we encountered were largely familiar and were covered in his treatise (Aczél (1961, 1966)). But some...

Reflections on political involvement.

All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist†

Thoughtful leaders increasingly recognize that we are not only failing to solve the persistent problems we face, but are in fact causing them. System dynamics is designed to help avoid such policy resistance and identify high-leverage policies for sustained improvement. What does it take to be an effective systems thinker, and to teach system dynamics fruitfully? Understanding complex systems r...

Razi a famous Iranian scientist

Among the brilliant contributors to the sciences of medicine, pharmacy, and chemstry during the Iranian era was one genius who seems to stand for his time- the Persian, Razi, (about 865-925 AD), called Rhazes by the western world. The most important authorship of Razi is the "contines" (Alhavi) that in fact, it is a medical encyclopedia and there is the describtion of all the illnesses, the way...

Razi a famous Iranian scientist

Among the brilliant contributors to the sciences of medicine, pharmacy, and chemstry during the Iranian era was one genius who seems to stand for his time- the Persian, Razi, (about 865-925 AD), called Rhazes by the western world. The most important authorship of Razi is the "contines" (Alhavi) that in fact, it is a medical encyclopedia and there is the describtion of all the illnesses, the way...