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Index
Cover
About Stafford Beer
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
PART I: The Nature of Operation Research
1. An Initial Posture
2. On Fixing Belief
3. Some Dangerous Precedents
4. The Wedged Bear
5. The New Look
PART II: The Activity of Operational Research
6. About Models
7. Models in Aspic
8. The Formal Languages
9. A Walk in the Ramified System
10. Apollo's Gift
PART III: The Relevance of Cybernetics
11. About Systems
12. Coping with Complexity
13. Controlling Operations
14. Self Organizing Systems
15. Controlling Enterprises
PART IV: Outcomes
16. Outcome for Industry
17. Information and Automation
18. The Outcome for Government
19. The Outcome for Management Science
20. On Practicability
Index
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