How Many Grapes Went into the Wine: Stafford Beer on the Art and Science of Holistic ManagementISBN: 978-0-471-94296-2
Hardcover
420 pages
July 1994
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Partial table of contents:
Holism and the Frou-Frou Slander.
BEGINNINGS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATION OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH TO TANGIBLE PROBLEMS.
A Technique for Standardizing Massed Batteries of Control Charts.
The Mechanical Simulation of Stochastic Flow.
The Impact of Cybernetics on the Concept of Industrial Organization.
CYBERNETICS: A NEW WORLD VIEW.
The World, the Flesh and the Metal: 1964 Stephenson Lecture.
Towards the Cybernetic Factory.
COMPLEXITY IN HUMAN AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS.
Cybernetics of National Development: The Zaheer Foundation Lecture, New Delhi, India.
Death Is Equifinal: Eighth Annual Ludwig von Bertalanffy Memorial Lecture.
Indexes.
Holism and the Frou-Frou Slander.
BEGINNINGS: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATION OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH TO TANGIBLE PROBLEMS.
A Technique for Standardizing Massed Batteries of Control Charts.
The Mechanical Simulation of Stochastic Flow.
The Impact of Cybernetics on the Concept of Industrial Organization.
CYBERNETICS: A NEW WORLD VIEW.
The World, the Flesh and the Metal: 1964 Stephenson Lecture.
Towards the Cybernetic Factory.
COMPLEXITY IN HUMAN AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS.
Cybernetics of National Development: The Zaheer Foundation Lecture, New Delhi, India.
Death Is Equifinal: Eighth Annual Ludwig von Bertalanffy Memorial Lecture.
Indexes.