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==Cybersyn==
 
==Cybersyn==
 
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==Writings==
 
==Writings==

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Stafford Beer (25 September 1926 – 23 August 2002) was a British theorist, consultant and professor at the Manchester Business School. He is known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics. He was an architect of Cybersyn, a Chilean project from 1971-73 during the presidency of Salvador Allende which aimed at constructing a distributed decision support system to aid in the management of the national economy.

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Stafford Beer on the Cybersyn project, Manchester Business School, 24 May 1974.
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