The unaccountability machine : why big systems make terrible decisions - and how the world lost its mind by Dan Davies.

By:

Davies; Dan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Profile Books, 2024.Description: ix, 294 s. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781788169547

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DDC classification:

303.483

Summary: "When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In THE UNACCOUNTABILITY MACHINE, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members. Management cybernetics was Beer's science of applying self-regulation in organisational settings, but it was largely ignored with the result being the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigour, Davies looks at what's gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance."

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam	303.483 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	11/22/2024	002003

"When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In THE UNACCOUNTABILITY MACHINE, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members. Management cybernetics was Beer's science of applying self-regulation in organisational settings, but it was largely ignored with the result being the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigour, Davies looks at what's gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance."

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