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Multilevel Computer Model of World Development System: Comments on the Implementation of the Food Submodel and its Driving Forces

Authors: Fischer G

Publication Year: 1975

Reference: IIASA Working Paper WP-75-149

Abstract

This paper is intended to give some critical comments on the Food Submodel carried out under M. Mesarovic and E. Pestel ("Multilevel Computer Model of World Development Systems"). In the first part of this report the technical problems are dealt with, which were met during the implementation of this model, due to misprints, mistakes and shortcomings in the relevant publication. In the second part, the extensive list of equations pertaining to the Food Submodel is reduced in an appropriate manner to gain some insight into the model behavior.