Ray Ison and Ed Straw, "The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency" (Routledge, 2020)
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The Invisible Hand
Every policy is a political experiment in practice. Preferential lobing essentially where typically a big company gets its policy er passed and enacted by government. Politicians then are under pressure to get things done, so they come out with policies like consumerism. So you find, in some respects that systems thinking is the alternative to politics. Am I terribly keen on it? Yed, well, gain met many and varied people who have different ideas about how we should run our country. And i've been using the term the invisible hand. You know, there's this thing going on which actuall is doing all sorts of good stuff. But but getting people to understand that is damned hard work.
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