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As Bertalanffy (1969) explained, “Any system as an entity which can be investigated in its own right must have boundaries, either spatial or dynamic” (p. 215.)
A New Book 2010
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People at the ISSS are not authorities on anything meaningful, they're Ludwig von Bertalanffy wannabes who have never managed to revive the dead "systems science."
A New Book 2010
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According to von Bertalanffy [52] “the system problem is essentially the problem of the limitations of analytical procedures in science.”
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In addition to his father and Hutchinson, H.T. Odum was influenced in his thinking by Lotka and von Bertalanffy, and he was concerned with many of the same problems as Georgescu-Roegen.
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In General System Theory (1968), von Bertalanffy and his cohorts argued that similar patterns of interaction could be found in quite different systems and ventured the argument that once these basic patterns were understood, all systems could be understood.
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901 - 1972) was an Austrian biologist who first proposed the basic tenets of general systems theory and applied the system methodology to the social sciences.
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Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) (International Society for the Systems Sciences)
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The applicability of “general systems theory” of Ludwig Bertalanffy proved to be something of a disappointment in the 1950s; so did “catastrophe theory” of Rene Thom in the 1970s—though each generated substantial newspaper ink.
Economic Principals David Warsh 1993
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Family theorists have borrowed a number of organizing concepts from the general systems theory expounded by such writers as von Bertalanffy 1950, 1968.
Planned Short-Term Treatment RICHARD A. WELLS 1994
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Comparison of the empirically derived growth curve to mathematical formulations such as non-Bertalanffy growth curve.
Chapter 11 1983
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