In conclusion

Why Systems Fail and Problems Sprout Anew (Part #3)

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The book is fun but also challenging to the reader who is constantly faced with the question 'just how true is this in fact ?' -- given the examples cited by the author or known to the reader. That there is an underlying profundity is difficult to deny.

Having been engaged in the production of a Yearbook of World Problems ant Human Potential (7), this consequently provoked reflection on the difficulties of designing an adequate response to such problems. This resulted in the production of a document on The Limits to Human Potential (1) which also attempted to grapple with some of the issues so successfully itemized by Gall. Further work on the constraints to action by the international community is required so that less reliance is placed up on out-dated structures, and more adequate ones car be designed.

To complement the 'Systemantics' perspective of Gall, it is appropriate to note the existence of a charming publication by a professor of international economics, Carlo M Cipolla. The editors are indebted to the network of the Association for the Promotion of Humour in Intentional Affairs for informing us of its existence. It has been privately printed under the following title:

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