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Science Philosophy & Social Aspects

Designing Freedom

by (author) Stafford Beer

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Nov 1993
Category
Philosophy & Social Aspects, Management Science
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887845475
    Publish Date
    Nov 1993
    List Price
    $17.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780887848551
    Publish Date
    Nov 1993
    List Price
    $14.95

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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.

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