Contents
Creating Social Systems.................................................................................. 1
Gary S. Metcalf
An Epic Learning Journey: From the Club of Rome
to Dialogic Design Science and DEMOSOPHIA .......................................... 37
Alexander N. Christakis
Cybernetics of Governance: The Cybersyn Project 1971–1973 ................. 71
Raul Espejo
Systemic Design Principles for Complex Social Systems ............................ 91
Peter H. Jones
The Theory and Practice of Third Phase Science ........................................ 129
Kenneth C. Bausch
Designing the Means for Governing the Commons ..................................... 147
Thomas R. Flanagan
Co-laboratories of Democracy: Best Choices
for Designing Sustainable Futures ................................................................. 167
Yiannis Laouris, Kevin M.C. Dye, Marios Michaelides,
and Alexander N. Christakis
Better Late than Never: Open Systems Theory’s Plan
to Deal with Climate Change ......................................................................... 185
Merrelyn Emery
Social Systems Design in Organizational Change ........................................ 213
Doug Walton
Name Index ...................................................................................................... 233
Subject Index ................................................................................................... 235