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Coping with System Sustainability: A Sociocybernetics Model for Social‐Economic System Architecture
Author(s) -
Bai Guohua,
Henesey Lawrence
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.1134
Subject(s) - cybernetics , coping (psychology) , viable system model , construct (python library) , management science , sustainability , social system , systems theory , sociology , macro , computer science , economic system , epistemology , positive economics , social science , economics , artificial intelligence , psychology , ecology , philosophy , psychiatry , biology , programming language
This paper proposes an epistemological model based on cybernetic principles and activity theory to interpret two levels of problems that are intertwined in our social‐economic system, namely the liveability and sustainability problems. In the first part of the paper, important principles and concepts from related fields of cybernetics and activity theory are introduced for later construction of a model. In the second part, a model is constructed on the basis of the introduced concepts. To validate the proposed model, the current economic crisis is studied in the third part. An important contribution of the proposed model is a theoretical understanding of the two levels problems and how to construct macro social‐economic policies to avoid similar crisis in the future. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.