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Feel strange as i call myself a system thinker *because* i believed that a grand model is not possible and that models are at best local (in all dimensions). That said, i may just live in different circles than the author ;)
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More 60s. In engineering, it's usually either called controls or systems and control. People who use "systems theory" tend to be either Wiener-cybernetics people, or from the "system dynamics" fork due to Jay Forrester (stock-flow diagrams and such... Limits to Growth for eg)
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I have no opinion on the colloquial usage with no technical/disciplinary implications. But people who use it in a technical, but not engineering sense, in my experience, tend to be one-big-model types. And here I obviously mean relative to declared scope, not universe.