Science Philosophy & Social Aspects
Designing Freedom
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press Inc
- Initial publish date
- Nov 1993
- Category
- Philosophy & Social Aspects, Management Science
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887845475
- Publish Date
- Nov 1993
- List Price
- $17.99
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780887848551
- Publish Date
- Nov 1993
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
Distinguished cyberneticist Stafford Beer states the case for a new science of systems theory and cybernetics. His essays examine such issues as The Real Threat to All We Hold Most Dear, The Discarded Tools of Modern Man, A Liberty Machine in Prototype, Science in the Service of Man, The Future That Can Be Demanded Now, The Free Man in a Cybernetic World.
Designing Freedom ponders the possibilities of liberty in a cybernetic world.
About the author
Stafford Beer, an international consultant in the sciences of management and effective organization, wrote hundreds of papers and articles and five books, among them Decision and Control, Management Science, and Platform for Change. He died in August 2002.