Cause-effect loops as explanation of underdevelopment *

Abstract

In order to explain the non-development of certain allegedly developing countries, notably Argentina, as the result of a long tradition of being a ‘non-system’, we coin [2] the expression ‘Should Be countries’ or SBC: i.e., countries that by most environmental standards should be developed, but are not. In such cases, isolated parts of the system prevent development, while that same non-development stands in the path of most actions to remedy the lack of coalescence of the different elements of society.