Worflow with Beer

Observation: Dan Davies, Henry Farrell, and Brad DeLong ... have a fascination with the work of Stafford Beer. 

Question: Why?

Conjecture: AI (or the ongoing development(s) in computing) for Management Theory as well as for Economics continues in its course. 

The obvious other question here is politics, but the experimental direction is not politics so much as management through computing and whether or not such management might work as AI.

How politics emerges though AI is, of course, a topic in itself.

Proposal [for computing]: Stafford Beer did seminal work in developing the use of computing for [process] management. However, the language employed by Beer is not quite in sync with the language in use today. Perhaps, if the goal is to popularize Beer further (or to review such ideas in light of current technology), we should map the language of Beer to Workflow Management and to Decision Theory and to the like ...

For example: Re-map the term Beer uses for non-hierarchal problem solving by teams, syntegrity, to Group Work.

Underlying question: How do workflows implement politics?

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Stafford Beer

Cybernetics

Cybernetics

Definitions of Cybernetics

Economic System

Management

Management (Topics of)

Functions of Management

The Failure of Scientific Management

Management Cybernetics

The Unaccountability Machine

Stafford Beer

Cybernetics and Management by Stafford Beer

Management Cybernetics

Management Cybernetics

Management Cybernetics

Management Science

Cybernetics

Cybernetic Informatics

Cybernetics

Soviet Computing

Soviet Cybernetics

Soviet Cybernetics

Beer on Computing

Decision Making

Team Syntegrity ~ Workflow

Management Planning

Operations Research ~ Workflow Management

Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer