Table of Contents

Prologue; Part I: Introduction; The Electronic Oracle; Part II: Modeling Paradigms; Models of Modeling; Part III: Nine Models; How to Describe a Model; SAHEL: The Tragedy of the Commons; RfF: Adding a Combine to a Tractor; SOS: The Perfectly -adjusting Society; TEMPO": Educating the Third World; LTSM: The Race Between Production and Consumption; BACHUE: A Twenty-Legged Robot; KASM: Not a Ureee but a Stew; MexicoV: Statistical Patches; CHAC: Optimising Mexican Agriculture; Part IV: The State of the Art; Model Content: The Process of Industrialization; Model Quality: Advantages of Computer Models; Implementation: Changing the World; Part V: Prescriptions; An Inventory of Suggestions; The Transformation of Modeling; Epilogue.