ABSTRACT
“Systems” has become a popular code word for saying we really must think more complexly about development. The question is whether each of these authors has taken us past the general message of the code word. I think so—although each has done it differently and, I think, with differential degrees and types of success. In my remarks I would like to take the discussant’s perogative to make some comments about the chapters by Oyama, Fentress, and Thelen, to identify common and different themes, and then to take on the systems issue from my own perspective as it relates to these three chapters.
