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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publication date
December 14, 1994
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780471951650
ISBN-10
047195165X
Dimensions
0.50 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.50 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$115.00
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Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: "Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched. His writing is as much art as it is science. He is the most viable system I know." Dr Russell L Ackoff, The Institute for Interactive Management, Pennsylvania, USA. "If anyone can make it [Operations Research] understandably readable and positively interesting it is Stafford Beer everyone in management should be grateful to him for using clear and at times elegant English and even elegant diagrams." The Economist
Based on the Massey Lectures, this book examines the reasons why the institutions of our society may well be failing, and opens a discussion as to what could be done. Drawing on the science of effective organization, which is his definition of cybernetics, Stafford Beer explains key cybernetic principles in words and pictures that all can understand. He concludes that our society commits more and more resources to plastering over the cracks in the system which simply reappear while freedom itself is increasingly eroded. The institutions must be redesigned, and returned to the people, to whom the scientific tools for doing this ought to belong.
Based on the Massey Lectures, this book examines the reasons why the institutions of our society may well be failing, and opens a discussion as to what could be done. Drawing on the science of effective organization, which is his definition of cybernetics, Stafford Beer explains key cybernetic principles in words and pictures that all can understand. He concludes that our society commits more and more resources to plastering over the cracks in the system which simply reappear while freedom itself is increasingly eroded. The institutions must be redesigned, and returned to the people, to whom the scientific tools for doing this ought to belong.
Editions
Paperback
from House of Anansi Pr (November 1, 1998)
9780887845475 | details & prices | 112 pages | List price $17.95
About: Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics.
About: Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics.
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Reprint edition from John Wiley & Sons Inc (December 14, 1994)
9780471951650 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $115.00
About: "Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched.
About: "Stafford Beer is undoubtedly among the world s most provocative, creative, and profound thinkers on the subject of management, and he records his thinking with a flair that is unmatched.
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