Operations management (OM) in the public policy context is extremely complex with many
mutually interacting factors characterized by feedback loops, delays and nonlinearities, as …

Jay Forrester's models evoke an operational approach to understanding economic behavior
and managing economic systems. They build on managerial roles, not rational agency …

This paper builds confidence in the terror contagion hypothesis that violent radicalization
leading to predatory mass violence operates as a system. Within this system, the contingent …

Insurgency conflicts pose significant challenges to societies globally. The increase of
insurgency conflicts creates a need to understand how insurgencies arise, and to identify …

This paper proposes a new theory of non-state actors who engage in irregular warfare to
seize territory and govern openly, called emerging-state actors. Emerging-state actors arise …

The treasury analogy is widely used in most countries in the execution of fiscal policies
striving to match taxation with public expenditure while, at the same time, the central banks …

The neoclassical models of economics seem to have eluded the concept of physical limits to
growth by assuming that the market and the technological advances evoked by it will make it …

Our research builds upon a theory of emerging-state actors. We look to apply the theory in
analyzing intervention and containment policies to use against emerging-state actors, using …

In this paper, we describe a system dynamics model that views cancer as a dysfunction of
the cellular system rather than as an ailment of cells. Our experiments with the model …

The “natural resource curse” refers to the apparent paradox in which nations with abundant
natural resource endowments tend to have slower rates of economic growth, and less …