Ebook: Decision and Control: The meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics

Intended as a definitive statement about holistic science and problem solving, "Decision and Control" elucidates and illustrates the propositions of Operational Research — "the attack of modern science on complex problems arising in the direction and management of large systems of men, machines, materials and money" by scientific modelling — in the management context.
Stafford Beer's advocacy of cybernetics offers the most powerful approach to multidisciplinary model building available, and he lays the foundation for a distinctive approach to the epistemology of science, based on the holistic nature of systems.