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" Designing freedom / "
by Stafford Beer ; with sketches by the author.
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BL
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| Record Number
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1026852
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b781222
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| Main Entry
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Beer, Stafford.
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| Title & Author
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Designing freedom /\ by Stafford Beer ; with sketches by the author.
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| Publication Statement
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Chichester, West Sussex, England ;New York :: Wiley,, 1994.
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| Series Statement
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The Stafford Beer classic library
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100 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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0471062200
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: 047195165X
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: 9780471062202
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: 9780471951650
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| Abstract
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"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."--Jacket.
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Cybernetics.
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Operations research.
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Social systems.
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Cybernetics.
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Operations research.
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Social systems.
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| Dewey Classification
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003.5
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658.4034
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| LC Classification
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T57.6.B433 1994
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85.05bcl
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