"A GENERAL EXPOSITION OF THE NEW SCIENCE, WRITTEN FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE PROBLEMS OF CONTROL"

BEER, Stafford. Cybernetics and Management. London: The English Universities Press, (1959). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $2800.

First edition, first impression, publisher's review copy of this pioneering work on "the science of effective organisations."

Stafford Beer (1926-2002) was a globally acclaimed tech guru whose study of operations research models in business led to groundbreaking work in the interdisciplinary field of cybernetics. With Cybernetics and Management, his first book, he established management cybernetics as "the science of effective organisations." Topics covered in this work include "Purposive Systems and Information," "The Power of Binary Decisions," "Mathematical Biophysics," "Intelligent Machines for Adaptation" and "The Analogue of Uncertainty," described concisely and with as little jargon as possible. Publisher's review slip laid in.

Contents clean, faint spotting to text block edges and to cloth; dust jacket edges rubbed, spine slightly toned with minor chipping to extremities. A very good copy.