Explaining Spreadthink

Argues that Spreadthink is responsible for the wide variation among economists and that unless economists, and other disciplines working with high levels of complexity, adapt there is no reason to assume that anything will change.


GMU DOES NOT HAVE THIS PAPER This is an article which Warfield was thinking of submitting to Systems Research, but had not yet done so. The folder name "SR&BSmANUSCRIPTS" stands for "Systems Research and Behavioral Science" I found the hard copy in a yellow manila folder of Warfield's new papers. Abstract written by Warfield: "The wide variation among economists is readily explainable by the Spreadthink phenomenon. Previously shown to be present by repeated application of the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) in a wide variety of situations, this phenomenon has now been shown to be present independently of NGT, and unless members of the economics discipline and other disciplines whose content is of comparable complexity change their ways, there is no reason to assume that economics will ever converge to any kind of applicable scientific coherence. The implications of this failure to converge ought to be apparent to economists and to the general public as well."

For this paper I have a WordPerfect copy on Rose Warfield's Dell in filename "Explaining Spreadthink". Also I have a printout of Warfield's original WordPerfect file, which is the manuscript of 11 pages, typed double spaced. On the manuscript Warfield has written a few corrections and alterations, but most of the article is already written. There are two figure pages, bar charts. These two figures might be from a paper written by Michael Litzelman and Qu Duan, which Warfield refers to in Footnote 3. It would be necessary to go to Warfield Special Collection in Fairfax and get the two papers there already written by Michael Litzelman and see if the bar chart figures were done by Michael, if so he should be credited in a footnote or reference. The titles of the Litzelman papers are In Box 37, Folder 55 "Forty Three Authors Illustrate Non-Integrative Communications Concerning the Japanese Miracle," [Michael F. Litzelman], 28 September 1995 and In Box 44 Folder 20 "Complexity & It's Implications for Organizations" [QU Duan, Michael F. Litzelman], 1990 r.w. 14 Feb 2013


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Additional Info

  • Category: Applications, Complexity, Group Processes, Solutions or Improvements for Complex Situations
  • Size: 105 p
  • Description: Typescript & PowerPoint slides
  • Publication Year: 2006
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