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Born in Climax, a small town near Anselmo , Nebraska , Forrester is the founder of System Dynamics , which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in Dynamic Systems . "Industrial Dynamics" was the first book Forrester wrote using System Dynamics to analyze industrial business cycles. Several years later, interactions with former Boston Mayor John F. Collins led Forrester to write ''Urban Dynamics'', which sparked the ongoing debate on the feasibility of modeling broader social problems. The unique insights of the urban dynamics model attracted the attention of urban planners around the world, eventually leading Forrester to meet a founder of the Club Of Rome . He later met with the Club of Rome to discuss issues surrounding global sustainability and what followed was the book ''World Dynamics''. ''World Dynamics'' took on modeling the complex interactions of the world Economy , Population and Ecology , which was understandably met with a great deal of misunderstanding (see also Donella Meadows and Limits To Growth ). Forrester has made numerous other contributions to the field of System Dynamics and continues today promoting System Dynamics in education. He is currently Germeshausen Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School Of Management . LITERATURE
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