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Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella H. Meadows
3.0

The book can be distilled to the summary in the Appendix. I admire the author's attempt to generalize the world into systems, but oftentimes it feels rigid, nuances lost, conclusions forced. I don't disagree with the many system-level observations, but it's hard to appreciate them in a void; it feels like a less clear Econ textbook. Well, maybe I'm just not a system thinker.