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Stafford Beer on the Cybersyn project, Manchester Business School, 24 May 1974.
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==Writings== | ==Writings== | ||
| + | * ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=91fe397bfea8b66a7af3ca3ce9b4a883 Cybernetics and Management]'', English Universities Press, 1959. | ||
| + | * ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=a80eafdb95cc2a07cd70b1270a3258f3 Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics]'', John Wiley & Sons, 1966; repr., Wiley, 1995. | ||
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=506 Designing Freedom]'', 1974. | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=506 Designing Freedom]'', 1974. | ||
| − | * ''Brain of the Firm'', Allen Lane, 1972; 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 1981. [http://www.uni-due.de/~bj0063/doc/beer.pdf] | + | ** ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=2BAB16CBE452A7D5341AE2E5F38782CE Diseñando la libertad]'', Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1977. {{es}} |
| + | * ''Brain of the Firm: The Managerial Cybernetics of Organization'', London: Allen Lane, 1972, 319 pp; 2nd ed., Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1981, xiii+417 pp. [http://www.uni-due.de/~bj0063/doc/beer.pdf Excerpt]. | ||
| + | * ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c02f248ac76617a2612d8b854023acd3 Diagnosing the System for Organizations]'', John Wiley & Sons, 1985. | ||
| + | * ''[http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=e154b4e16a1ff4b1123ad7031429218c Platform for Change]'', John Wiley & Sons, 1994. | ||
==Literature== | ==Literature== | ||
Revision as of 11:30, 30 August 2015
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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Cybersyn
Stafford Beer on the Cybersyn project, Manchester Business School, 24 May 1974.
WEBM (42 mb). Source.
Writings
- Cybernetics and Management, English Universities Press, 1959.
- Decision and Control: The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics, John Wiley & Sons, 1966; repr., Wiley, 1995.
- Designing Freedom, 1974.
- Diseñando la libertad, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1977. (Spanish)
- Brain of the Firm: The Managerial Cybernetics of Organization, London: Allen Lane, 1972, 319 pp; 2nd ed., Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1981, xiii+417 pp. Excerpt.
- Diagnosing the System for Organizations, John Wiley & Sons, 1985.
- Platform for Change, John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
Literature
- Raul Espejo (ed.), Kybernetes. The International Journal of Systems & Cybernetics 33(3/4): "Tribute to Stafford Beer", 2004. [1]
- Miller Medina, Jessica Eden, The State Machine: Politics, Ideology, and Computation in Chile, 1964-1973, 2005.
- Andrew Pickering, The Science of the Unknowable: Stafford Beer’s Cybernetic Informatics, Aarhus: Centre for STS Studies, 2006.
- Miller Medina, Jessica Eden, "Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile", Journal of Latin American Studies 38 (2006), pp 571-606.
- Eden Medina, Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile, MIT Press, 2011. [2]
- Jonathan Rosenhead, "Stafford Beer", in Profiles in Operations Research, Springer, 2011.
- Evgeny Morozov, "The Planning Machine: Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation", The New Yorker, 13 Oct 2014.
