Answer the following about contributions to social science by the inventor of magnetic core memory, Jay Wright Forrester, for 10 points each.
[10m] Stafford Beer’s “viable models” of these entities inspired Forrester’s study of their “dynamics.” Niklas Luhmann popularized theories of these entities, like Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s “general” one, in sociology.
ANSWER: systems [accept general systems theory]
[10e] Forrester’s systems dynamics were applied in a controversial 1972 Club of Rome study titled for the “Limits to” this process. This process can lead to a Malthusian trap if it outpaces agricultural production.
ANSWER: population growth [or The Limits to Growth; accept descriptions of an increase in the number of people; prompt on population or descriptions of the number of people by asking “undergoing what process?”]
[10h] Forrester sometimes names this effect modeled by his “beer game.” In this effect, fluctuations in demand, and swings in inventory at the point of sale, magnify as they travel up a supply chain.
ANSWER: bullwhip effect
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