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The Unaccountability Machine Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost Its Mind

Hardcover • 2024 • English

The Unaccountability Machine Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost Its Mind

By Dan Davies

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About the book

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 w...Show more

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9781788169547

Publisher

Profile Books

Published year

2024

Language

English

Original title

The Unaccountability Machine Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost Its Mind

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Hardcover

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