Cause-effect loops as explanation of underdevelopment*

Article type: Short Communication

Authors: Herrscher, Enrique G.^;

Affiliations: San Martin 551, Piso 4⁰ Ofic. 44, 1004 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Note: [*] This is a modified and shortened version of a paper presented at the 31st SGSR annual meeting.

Abstract: In order to explain the non-development of certain allegedly developing countries, notably Argentina, as the result of a long tradition of being a ‘non-system’, we coin [2] the expression ‘Should Be countries’ or SBC: i.e., countries that by most environmental standards should be developed, but are not. In such cases, isolated parts of the system prevent development, while that same non-development stands in the path of most actions to remedy the lack of coalescence of the different elements of society.

Keywords: Underdeveloped countries, cybernetics, social systems

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-1988-7411

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 375-378, 1988