Subject: The Tragedy of the Commons Archetype

Posted by Jaimie Cloud on 11/8/2011
In Reply To:The Tragedy of the Commons Archetype Posted by Richard Turnock on 11/7/2011

Message:

Thank you Richard, Janice, Janis and Michael. All of your responses have been tremendously useful to me. In summary, here is what I think I understand now—:

1. Endogenous is a term modelers use to build models to understand system dynamics—so the language of “problems and solutions being endogenous” has nothing to do with where the problem actually came from or where the solution will actually come from.
2. The system boundaries including time, and the causal connections, need to be considered when determining which kind of “game” you are playing—i.e., “zero sum or non-zero sum”—


Did I get it right?

Jaimie

Follow Ups:

Endogenous Model - Jay Forrester 11/24/2011 
Endogenous Model - George Richardson 11/24/2011
Endogenous Model - Richard Turnock 11/24/2011
Endogenous Model - Janice Hansel 11/24/2011
Endogenous Model - Niall Palfreyman 11/25/2011
Endogenous Model - Jaimie Cloud 11/28/2011