Some readings on Stafford Beer

1. The purpose of a system is what it does (Wikipedia)

2. Stafford Beer(2002), "What Is Cybernetics?" (Kybernetics, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 209-219):
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3. Obituary: Stafford Beer, World leader in the development of operational research, who combined management systems with cybernetics (Guardian, 5 Sep 2002)

4. Stafford Beer (World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics)

5. Rosemary Bechler (2002), "Stafford Beer: the man who could have run the world"

6. Stafford Beer(1973), "Designing Freedom", The text of six radio broadcasts delivered as Massey Lectures.

7. Stafford Beer Collection (Liverpool John Moores University)

8. Howard Silverman (2013), "Stafford Beer: 1973 Massey Lectures"

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