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From the shantytowns of Port-au-Prince to the fishing village of Pestel in the south, Haitians last week peacefully crowded to the polls to cast their votes for a new constitution. More than 40% of the electorate, an astonishing figure considering the country's pervasive illiteracy, turned out and approved Haiti's new charter...
Such moves would obviously substitute international planning for the workings of the free market. The Club aims to help that planning with a computer model, developed by Edouard Pestel, professor of engineering at West Germany's Hannover University and Mihajlo Mesarovic, director of the Systems Research Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Concentrating on ten separate world regions, the model is fed data-population growth, food production, climate changes, energy supplies, etc.-that can permit economists to test scenarios for various situations. West Germany, for instance, is already using the model to find out how to transfer...
Mankind's authors (Mihajlo Mesarovic, director of Case Western Reserve University's Systems Research Center in Cleveland, and Eduard Pestel, head of Germany's Institute of Mechanics at the Technical University of Hannover) are subdued in tone and, if anything, more optimistic than pessimistic. Their computer treats the world not as a monolithic entity but as ten interdependent regions, each with its peculiar economic, social and geophysical characteristics...
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