by Joël de Rosnay · Seuil · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782020045674
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«Le macroscope: Vers une vision globale» is the popular science essay by Joël de Rosnay (Seuil, paperback, 305 pages, in French).
The author proposes the «macroscope», a symbolic instrument for observing reality from a global perspective rather than only through isolated analysis of its parts. He applies systems thinking to fields such as ecology, economics, business, the city, the organism and the cell, and shows the rules of organisation and regulation common to these systems.
Published in 1977 in the Points Essais collection (no. 80 of the Points series).
Recommended for readers interested in systems theory, ecology and popular science.
Joël de Rosnay, is a Mauritius-born French scientist and writer, presently President of Biotics International, a consulting company specialized in the impact of new technologies on industries, and Special Advisor to the President of the Universcience of which he was Director of Forecasting and Assessment until June 2002.
