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Contents

Books ...... 3

Book Chapters ...... 4

Pamphlets ...... 6

Prefaces ...... 6

Contributions ...... 7

Papers...... 8

Articles ...... 13

Others ...... 15

Reviews ...... 16

Audio ...... 18

Video ...... 18

Letters ...... 18

Interviews ...... 19

Obituaries ...... 19

Books

1959 Cybernetics and Management; English Universities Press, London. John Wiley, New York. Reprinted 1960, 1965, New Edition (with New Chapter) 1967, reprinted 1970, 1971, 1973. Translated into Spanish, Russian, German Czech, Polish Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and French.

1966 Decision and Control; The Meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics. John Wiley, September 1966, reprinted 1967, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1978, 1979, 1988. (Awarded Lanchester Prize). Translated into Spanish.

1968 Management Science; The Business Use of Operational Research, Aldous books UK and USA, hardcover and paperback, February 1968. Translated into German, French, Swedish, Japanese, Finnish, Dutch and Norwegian.

1972 Brain of the Firm; Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London, Herder and Herder, USA. Translated into German, Italian, Swedish and French.

1974 Designing Freedom; CBC Learning Systems, Toronto, 1974; and John Wiley, London and New York, 1975. Translated into Spanish and Japanese.

1975 Platform For Change; John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted with corrections 1978.

1977 Transit; Poems, CWRW Press, Wales. Limited Edition, Private Circulation.

1979 The Heart of Enterprise; John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted with corrections 1988.

1981 Brain of the Firm; Second Edition (much extended), John Wiley, London and New York. Reprinted 1986, 1988. Translated into Russian.

1983 Transit; Poems, Second edition (much extended). With audio cassettes: Transit – Selected Readings, and one Person Metagame; Mitchell Communications, Publisher, PO Box 2878, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada.

1985 Diagnosing the System for Organisations; John Wiley, London and New York. Translated into Italian and Japanese. Reprinted 1988, 1990, 1991.

1986 Pebbles to Computer: The Thread; (with Hans Blohm), Oxford University Press, Toronto.

1994 Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity; John Wiley, Chichester.

1994 How Many Grapes Went into the Wine: Stafford Beer on the Art and Science of Holisitic Management; Harnden, R and Leonard, A. (Eds.), John Wiley, Chichester.

Chronicles of Wizard Prang; pending publication.

Book Chapters

1962 Control Systems; Chapter VI in “Operational Research in Management”, English Universities Press, London.

1963 Operational Research; “The Principles and Practice of Management”, Ed. E.F.L. Brech. Part 5, Chapter IV, Longmans.

1964 Operational Research and Automation; “What Every Director Should Know about Automation”, Institute of Directors.

1965 The Electronic Firm; “Penguin Survey of Business and Industry”, Chapter 1, Ed. Rex Malik, Penguin.

1968 Operational Research and Accounting; “Studies in cost Analysis”, Ed. David Solomons, Sweet and Maxwell.

1969 Prospects of the Cybernetic Age; Chapter in “Survey of Cybernetics”, Ed. Rose, Iliffe.

In Conclusion : Some Beginnings; (with Professor R.L. Ackoff) in “Progress in Operational Research”, Vol. III, John Wiley.

1969 The Aborting Corporate Plan; In “Perspectives of Planning”, OECD.

1970 What Kind of Future?; Last Chapter in “Which Way?2, Eds. Michael Ivens and Clive Bradley, Michael Joseph, London, 1970.

1972 The Liberty Machine; Chapter in “Cybernetics, Artiﬁcial Intelligence and Ecology”, Spartaun Books. Portage, ME.

Management in Cybernetic Terms; Chapter 9 in “Scientiﬁc Thought”, Mouton/Unesco.

1974 Lively Messages for Alert Management; in “Systems and Management Annual, 1974”, Ed. R.L.Ackoff, Petrocelli Books, New York.

Notes on Adaptive Education; in “Systems and Management Annual, 1974”, Ed. R.L. Ackoff, Petrocelli Books, New York.

1978 The Real Meaning of Consensus is that New Ideas Are Out; in “What’s Wrong with Britain?”, Ed. Patrick Hutber, Chapter Eight, Sphere Books Limited, London, 1978.

Forecasting: A Tool of Adaption; in “Forecasting and Planning”, Eds. R. Fields and D. Wood, Chapter Twelve, Saxon House, Gower Press, Aldershot, 1978.

1983 Questions of Quest; in “Introduction to Cybernetics; Theory and Applications”, Ed. Robert Trappl, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, Washington DC, 1983.

The Preposterous Interface; in “So this is 1984”, Eds. D. Parkhill and P. Enslow Jnr., International Council for Computer Communication, North Holland, Amsterdam.

1985 Der Wille Der Volke; Chapter in “Intergriertes Management”, Eds. G. Probst and H. Siegwart, Feschrift for Hans Ulrich, translated by F. Malik, Haupt. Bern and Stuttgart.

1986 Recursions of Power; Keynote Address to the Seventh European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research, April, 1984. Chapter in Power, Autonomy, Utopia, Ed. R. Trappl, Plenum Press, New York, 1986.

1989 National Government: Disseminated Regulation in Real-Time, or How to Run A Coountry; Chapter 12 in The Viable Systems Model – Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer’s VSM, Eds. R. Espejo and R. Harnden, John Wiley, Chichester.

The Evolution of a Management Cybernetic Process; Chapter 9 in The Viable Systems Model – Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer’s VS, Eds. R. Espejo and R. Harnden, John Wiley, Chichester.

The Viable System Model: It’s Provenance, Developments, Methodology and Pathology; Chapter 1, in The Viable System Model – Interpretations and Applications of Stafford Beer’s VSM, Eds. R. Espejo and R. Harnden, John Wiley, Chichester.

1993 Liveley Messages for Alert Management; in “Wirtschafts-infomatic”, N. Niedereuchalz and W. Schuhmann, Campus/Verlag, Frankfurt/New York.

Origins of Team Syntegrity; Chapter 4 in Organisational Fitness, Corporate Effectiveness hrough Management Cybernetics, Eds. R. Espejo and M. Schwaninger, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt.

Pamphlets

1963 An Essay on Operational Research; Sigma Paper No. 1, Newmand Neame.

Operational Research in Iron and Steel; Sigma Paper No. 3, Newmand Neame. Spanish Translation (by Sofemasa); La Investigacion Operativa en las Industrias Metalurgicas.

1964 The Theory of Or; Sigma Paper No. 8, Newmand Neame.

1969 Readings from Stafford Beer; Management Monographs No. 1, Ed. Frank S. Dreschsler, Irish University Press.

1970 Marlow Seventy; Operational Research Society, London.

The Organisation of the Manchester Business School from Nineteen Seventy; University of Manchester.

1980 One Person Metagame; Stafford Beer Foundation, Toronto.

Prefaces

1969 How to Manage Computers for Results; by D.N. Chorafas, Gee & Co. Ltd., London, 1969.

1971 Cybernetics and the Tax Law; by S. Foundos, Research Publication of the Certiﬁed Accountants.

1980 Autopoiesis and Cognition; By Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela. Riedel Publishing, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42.

1989 Prologue to Identidad De Las Organizaciones, Invariancia Y Cambio (The Identity of Organisations, Invariance and Change) by Jorge Elkin and Leonardo Schvarstein, Paidos, Buenos Aires.

Contributions

1954 Pre-Design Estimation of the Capital Cost of Chemical Plant; Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Vol. 32, No. 3, (Contribution to proceedings of ICE Meeting).

1957 Thinking Machines; The Institution of Production Engineers Journal, Vol. 36, No.1, January (Contributions opening proceedings on Grey Walter’s paper).

1958 Introduction Address and Summing-up; Conference on Computers in the Iron and Steel Industry, 15th April (Proceedings published by British Iron and Steel Research Association.

1959 Behaviour Sequences as Semi-Markov Chains; by violet Cane, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. Vol. 21, No.1, (Contribution to Discussion).

1959 Two Theorems of Statistical Separability in the Perception; by F. Rosenblatt: Mechanisation of Though Processes, NPL Symposium No.10, HMSO (contribution to discussion).

Simulation Studies of Industrial Operations; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A), Vol. 122, Part 4 (contribution to proceedings of RSS Meeting).

1961 Operational Research; Industry and Careers, Ed. D.E. Wheatley, Iliffe (Section of Chapter of Specialist Services).

1965 The Research and the Manager; A Dialectic of Implementation-Commentary. Management Science, Vol.12, No.2, October.

1968 SAM; Cybernetic Serendipity-Catalogue of Exhibition by Institute of Contemporary Arts, Studio International, September.

1971 Computer Simulation in Europe; Long Range Planning, Vol.3, No.4, June.

1973 Cybernetic Consciousness; (a repudiation) in “Science for People” (Journal of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science), June-July 1973, No.22.

Un Sistema Auto-Organizzato Per La Formazione Della Alte Direzioni Aziendali; in Studio Sui Problemi della Formzione dei Quandri Direttivi IFAP, Rome 1973, No.22.

1977 The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought; Eds. Alan Bullock and Oliver Stallybrass, Fontana/Collins.

Papers

1953 Production Control of Mixed Output on Varied Machinery, a paper presented to the Royal Statistical Society, Cranﬁeld Conference on Industrial Applications of Statistics, 25-27th September, 1953.

A Technique for Standardising Massed Batteries of Control Charts; Applied Statistics, Vol.2, No.3, November 1955.

1954 Operational Research and Accounting; Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.5, No.3. (Subsequently published as a chapter in Studies in Cost Analysis, Ed. David Solomons, Sweet and Maxwell, 1968).

1955 The Productivity Index in Active Service; Applied Statistics, Vol.4, No.1, (reprinted and bound separately as O.R. Course paper, Institute for Engineering Production, University of Birmingham.

1955 Isoplus n: Interpolating an Additive Cycle in a Multiplicative Multistage Nomograph; Operational Research Quarterly, Vol. 6, No.2.

Isoplus n: A Further Note; Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.6, No.3.

An Original System of Production Control in a Steelworks; Handbook of Industrial Engineering and Management. Eds. Ireson and Grant, Prentice Hall (USA). (Case Study in Section on OR:.

The Nature of Linear Programming and Its Applicability to Industry; Report for private circulation by the British Institute of Management.

1956 Operational Research and Financial Management; Accounting Research, Vol.8, No.1, January 1957 (Republished in Swedish in Information, Nr 4, Angang 8, April 1957).

Organisation of Operational Research; Research, Vol.9, No.5, May 1956. (Reprinted and specially bound with ﬁve others under title Operational Research, 1956).

1956 A Technical Consideration of the Cybernetic Analogue for Planning and Programming; Paper presented to the First International Conference on Cybernetics, Namur, 1956. (Process Control and Automation, Vol.3, Nos. 8 & 9). Proceedings of First International Conference on Cybernetics, Namur, 1959.

Operational Research and Cybernetics; Paper presented to the First International Conference on Cybernetics, Namur 1956. Proceedings of First International Conference on Cybernetics, Namur, 1959.

The Impact of Cybernetics on the Concept of Industrial Organisation; Paper presented to the First International Conference on Cybernetics, Namur, 1956. Proceedings of First International Conference on Cybernetics, Namur, 1959.

Test for Detecting Real Changes in Frequency; The Engineer, Vol.2, 202, No.5263.

The Scope for Operational Research in Industry; The George Bray Memorial Lecture. (Published by The Institution of Production Engineers, London, 1957). (Full proceedings in The Institute of Production Engineers Journal, Vol.36, No.5, May 1957). (Reprinted in The Engineer and Machine Shop Magazine). (Translated and republished as a booklet Le Champ de la Recherche Operationelle dans l’Industrie Docu- ments d’Information, Series III, No.3, Office Belge pour I’accroissement de la productivite, Brussels, 1959).

1957 The Mechanical Simulation of Stochastic Flow; Flow Proceedings of the First International Conference on Operational Research, Oxford, English Universities Press Ltd., London.

Operational Research; Paper to the North-West Regional Conference of the British Productivity Council, 21 st May. Proceedings of the Conference, British Productivity Council.

1958 The Irrelevance of Automation, Address to Plenary Session of 2nd International Congress on Cybernetics, 1958. Cybernetics Vol.1, No.4, Review of the International Association for Cybernetics, Namur, and Proceedings of 2nd International conference on Cybernetics, Association Internationale de Cybernetique, Namur 1960. (French translation: L’Automation, une Solution Inadequate – Prospective No.2, Janvier, 1959, Presses Universitaires de France).

1958 What has Cybernetics to do with Operational Research; Read to the Operational ResearchSociety on 17th November, 1958, Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.10, No.1, March, 1959.

1959 Where Does Opertonal Research Go From Here? Closing address to National Conference on Operational Research.

Operational Research and Personnel Management; Joint paper with Professor R.W Revans. Occasional Paper of the Institute of Personnel Management, No.14, (and printed for their National Conference, October 1959).

1960 Overall Control; Journal of the Institution of Production Engineers, Vol.39, No.10, October, 1960. Opening address to Annual Symposium.

Below the Twilight Arch: A Mythology of Systems; Banquet Address to First Systems Symposium, The Systems Research Centre of Case Institute of Technology, April, 1960. Systems: Research & Design (Proceedings of the First Systems Symposium, John Wiley, 1961, and Yearbook 1960, Vol. 5, Society for General Systems Research).

Thinking About Machines That Think; 1. Machines brains and behaviour. 2. Brain mind and spsirit. Two talks broadcast by the BBC North of England Home Service 9th and 16th March 1960

Towards the Cybernetic Factory; Principles of Self-Organisation, Eds. Von Forester & Zopf. Transactions of Illinois Symposium 1960. Pergamon Press 1962.

1961 The Place of Nature in Operational Research Science; Address to National Operational Research Conference, October 1961. Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.13, No.1, March, 1962).

An Operational Research Project on Technical Education; Address to Yorkshire Council for Further Education Annual Conference, 9-11th November 1961, Scarborough. Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.13, No. 2, June, 1962.

1963 An Operational Research Approach to the Nature of Conﬂict; Paper delivered at Windsor Study conference on the Contributions of Science to the Resolution of International Conﬂict, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, 28th June – 1 st July, 1963. Political Studies, Vol. XIV, No.2, June 1966.

1964 The Theory of Operational Research; The Cost Accountant, Vol.42, No.6, June, 1964.The Sentient Eco- system; A Cybernetic Approach to Marketing; Proceedings of European Society for Opinion Surveys and Market Research (ESOMAR) Conference, San Remo, Italy, 7-10th September, 1964.

1965 The World, the Flesh and the Metal; The Stephenson Lecture, delivered before the Stephenson Engineering Society, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 26th November, 1964. Nature, No. 4968, pp. 223-231, 16th January.

1965 Cybernetics and the Knowledge of God; The Month, New Series, Vol.34, No.5, November, 1965.

1966 The Computer as a Creative Tool of Management; Proceedings of National Management Conference (BIM). London Hilton 8/9 March, 1966. The Accountant, 9 th April, 1966.

Entering the Cybernetic Age; (1) Brainlike Computers, (2) Management, Education and Society: Address to Dansk Ingeniorforening in Copenhagen inaugurating their Automation Year. the Month, April and May 1967.

1969 Prerogatives of System in Management Control; UKAC Record No.11, January, 1969. Reprinted in Management Decision, Summer, 1969.

1970 Operational Research as Revelation; Presidential Address to the Operational Research Society, Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.21, No.1, March, 1970.

1970 Managing Modern Complexity; Address to the eleventh meeting of the committee on Science and Astronautics, House of Representatives, Washington DC.

The Management of Information and Knowledge; US House of Representatives, US Government Printing Office 1970 and Proceeding ninety First Congress Second Session.

1970 Planning as a Process of Adaptation; Proceedings of Fifth International Conference of Operational Research, Venice, 1969. Tavistock Publications, London, 1969.

Adaptations in Systems: The Human Approach; Address at the Twentieth Regular Meeting of The Diebold Research Program, Hot Springs, Virginia, 1969. Diebald Research Program Document Number PP31, Professional Papers Series, USA.

The Cybernetic Cytoblast: Management Itself; Progress of Cybernetics, Gordon & Breach, London. Chairman’s Address to Congress, International Cybernetics Congress, London, 1969.

1971 Health and Quiet Breathing; (abridged). British Hospital Journal and Social Service Review, London.

The Law and the Proﬁts; (The Sixth Frank Newsam Memorial Lecture) The Police Journal, January 1971.

The Liberty Machine: Can Cybernetics Help Rescue the Environment?; Futures, Vol.3, No.4, December, 1971.

Questions of Metric; Operation Research Quarterly, Vol.22, Conference Issue, pp. 133 to 144.

How the Organisation Really Works; Proceedings of the International Conference on Corporate Planning, Montreal.

1972 Lively Messages for Alert Management; The ICL Lecture, University of Wales, Cardiff. Published in Systems and Management Annual 1974, Petocelli Books, New York.

1973 The Surrogate World We Manage; Behavioral Science, Vol.18, No.3. Reprinted Personnel Management Review, No.24, June 1974.

1973 Fanfare for Effective Freedom; The Richard Goodman Memorial Lecture, 1973, Brighton Polytechnic, Sussex. In Platform for Change, Beer, 1975, John Wiley.

1974 On Heaping our Science Together; Progress in Cybernetics and Systems Research. (Introduction to Vols. I and II). Ed. Trappl and Pichler, Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, Washington DC, 1975.

Imminent Forms of Immanent Crisis; Keynote Address to the National Conference of the Canadian Operations Research Society, Ottawa, INFOR Journal, Vol.12, No.3.

Cybernetics of National Development; The Zaheer Foundation Lecture, New Delhi, India, 5th December 1974. In How Many Grapes Went into the Wine, Harnden and Leonard (Eds), 1994, John Wiley.

1975 Laws of Anarchy; The Irvine Memorial Lecture, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (with John Casti).

Investment Against Disaster; IIASA Working Paper, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria.

1976 Cybernetics of Humankind; The Journal of Human Potential, January, 1976.

1980 Conferences; A Call to Experiment; Transnational Associations, Vol.32, 1980, and (with AJN Judge) ibid Vol.32, 1980.

I Said You Are Gods; The Second Annual Teilhard Lecture, 1980, at King’s College, London. The Teilhard Review, Vol.15, No.3, 1981 (special issue), and In How Many Grapes Went into the Wine, Harnden and Leonard (Eds), John Wiley, 1994.

1981 Death is Equiﬁnal; Eighth Ludwig von Bertalanffy Memorial Lecture for the Society for General Systems Research. Behavioural Science, Vol. 26, No.3, 1981, and In How Many Grapes Went into the Wine, Harnden and Leonard (Eds), John Wiley, 1994.

1982 Man in a Garrulous Silence; Address for Mankind 2000, Haifa, Israel 1982. Copyright Multimedia Publications, 1982.

1983 A Reply to Ulrich’s Critique of Pure Cybernetic Reason; The Chilean Experience with Cybernetics; Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, Vol.10, 1983.

1983 The Will of the People; Linsey Sutcliffe Memorial Lecture, Middlesex Polytechnic. Published in Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 34, No.8, pp. 797-810, 1983.

In German: Der Wille Der Volker; Trans. Dr. Fredmund Malik. In Integrities Management eds. G. Probst and H. Siegwart. Haupt: Bern and Stuttgart.

1984 The Viable Systems Model: Its Provenance, Development, Methodology and Pathology; Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol.35, No.1, 1984.

1985 Managing Modern Complexity: Fifteen Years On; Commentary on an address to Congress made in 1970, for Classic Reprints in Futures Quarterly, Vol.1, No.3, Fall 1985.

1986 Powerless Power: Goodwill’s Paradox; Inaugural Address to the Stafford Beer Foundation, Toronto, 19th March, 1986. The Systemist, Newsletter of the United Kingdom Systems Society, No.21, August, 1986.

The Third Millennium: Toronto 2000; Address launching the Countdown for Toronto 2000 at the St. Lawrence Centre on 12th February, 1986.

The Surrogate World we Manage: Fifteen Years On; Address to the Opening Plenary Session of the World Futures Conference, New York City, 13th July, 1985.

The Future of Work; Keynote Address to the 55th Annual Couchiching Conference, Geneva Park, Ontario Futures Canada, Vol.8, Nos. 2 and 3, 1986.

1987 Rules of the Game; Address to the Future Focus Conference, Geneva Park, Lake Couchiching, 23-25th Jan., 1987.

Holism and the Frou Slander; Opening Address by the President of the Seventh Triennial International Conference of the World Organisation of General Systems and Cybernetics, held in London on 7th September, 1987. Kybernetes Vol. 17, No.1.

1988 About Flat Earth; Convocation Address to Concordia University on receiving the degree of Doctor of Laws (honoria causa), 8th June, 1988. Cybernetics and Human Knowing, Vol.1, No.1, Halbourg, Denmark, 1992.

1989 I am the Emperor and I Want Dumplings; Plenary Address to Silver Jubilee Conference on Operational Research and Social Science, Cambridge University Systems Practice, No.2, No.3, September, 1989. Plenum Press New York and London.

1990 On Suicidal Rabbits; Systems Practice, Vol.3, No.2, Festschrift (a special edition) in honour of Russel L. Ackoff, Plenum Press, New York and London.

1990 Recursion Zero: Metamanagement; Systems Practice, special issue on Stafford Beer’s Viable System Model, Vol.3, No.3, Plenum Press, New York and London, June, 1990.

1991 Reﬂections of a Cybernetician on the Practice of Planning; Keynote speech to the Canadian Institute of Planners to the 1987 National Conference in Toronto. Kybernetes, Vol.20, No.6, pp. 8-13, 1991.

1993 Easter: For Gordon, With Love; Festschrift for Gordon Pask, Special Edition of systems Research, Vol.10, No.3, pp. 13-17.

World In Torment: A Time Whose Idea Must Come; Presidential Address to World Organization of systems and Cybernetics, New Delhi, Kybernetes, Vol.22, No.6, pp. 15-43

Requiem (description of the installation of nine large interactive paintings in an apse of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 1992-3). Kybernetes, Vol.22, No. 6, pp. 105-108.

1994 May The Whole Earth Be Happy; Festschrift for C. West Churchman, Pending publication in Systems Practice and (edited version) in Interfaces.

1997 The Culpabliss Error: A Calculiss of Ethics for a Systemic World. Systems Practice, Vol 10, No. 4, August 1997, pp 365 - 380

1999 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - and Women Too: (from Warren McCulloch to Candace Pert). Systems Practice and Action Research, Vol 12, No. 15, October 1999. pp 433 - 456

A Filigree Friendship: (a tribute to Gordon Pask). Pending publication

Ten Pints of Beer: Pending publication

Articles

1954 How Operational Research Aids Production Control; Business, Vol. 84, No. 1.

1955 Production Control; The Fox Magazine, Vol.4, No. 1.

1956 Thinking Machines The Fox Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 7, October, 1956.

Cybernetic Machines Will Think; Sheffield Telegraph Annual Trade Review, 28th December.

1957 Machines Of The Future; Facts, The Economic League, No. 124, May, and New Future, the Economic League, July.

Operational Research In Industry - Part 1; Machine Shop Magazine, Vol. 18, No.4, April 1957.

Operational Research In Industry - Part 2; Machine Shop Magazine, Vol. 18, No.5, May 1957.

Operational Research; Technology, the Times, No. 3, Vol. 1, May.

The Office And Automation; Office Management (Journal of the OMA) June.

1958 Operational Research and Work Study; Work Study and Industrial Engineering, March.

Automation Is Not Enough; HUB (Journal of Sheffield Junior Chamber of Commerce), Vol. 7, No. 3, August.

A Tool As Useful in Peace As It Was During War; Sheffield Telegraph Industrial Review, 31 st December.

1959 New Science Of Control; Railway Steel Topics, Vol. 5, No.1.

1960 The Cybernetic Company; Control, Vol.3, No.24, June.

Machines That Think; Quality of Sheffield, Vol. 7, No. 5, May.

Self-Organisation; Control. Vol. 3, No. 27, September. (Report on Urbana Symposium in Look at America).

International Operational Research; Nature, Vol. 188, No. 4757, 31 st December.

1961 Responsive Systems – A Note On Industrial Cybernetics; FBI Review, March.

Automation Needs - ; (i) Are we aiming at the minimum pay-off? (ii) Solutions to a hidden problem. Electronics Weekly, (i) No. 46, 19th July, (ii) No. 47, 26th July.

Industry And Operational Research; Business Equipment Digest, Vol.1, No.10, December.

On Viable Governors; Discovery, October.

1962 Control – My Foot; Control, Vol. 5, No.45, March.

Management Electronics; Metra, vol.1, No.1.

A Progress Note On Research Into A Cybernetic Analogue Of Fabrice; Artorga, communication 40, April, and in How Many Grapes Went into the Wine, Harnden and Leonard (Eds), John Wiley.

Why Government Should Investigate Operational Research; Operational Research Automatic Data Processing, July, 1962.

1963 Cybernetics; Britannica book of the Year, Encyclopedia Britannica Ltd.

Change Without Alteration; Sheffield Telegraph, 24th September.

1963 Love And The Computer; The Manager, October and November. Address abridged to the National Conference on Electronics, Instrumentation and Production at Bristol, June, 1963. Also Metra Journal, Vol.3, No.1.

St. Paul And The Computer; Catholic Herald, 8th November.

1965 SIGMA; Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.16, No.3, September.

A Matter of Control: Management in the 21 st Century; The Manager, December. Reprinted in Personnel Management, Unilever NV, No.3, September, 1966.

1967 Cry Must Be Heard; (Guest Leader); Computer Weekly, 5th January.

1968 Cybernetics Thrills And Threats; Christian Action, Anniversary Edition, December 1967. Reprinted in The Computer Bulletin, March, 1968.

1968 The Methods Men Pose A Challenge to UK Firms; The Times, 3rd September, (Business Section; World Management).

1968 Machines That Control Machines; Science Journal, October.

Cybernetics, Careers In the New Science of Control; Careers of the Future, WHERE Supplement 17th , December.

1969 The Impact Of Cybernetics; Computer Weekly, 21 st August.

1970 The Middle Of The Muddle; Imprint, No.2, 1970.

The Software Milieu. Management Today, August, 1970.

1971 Science And The Mass Media; The Listener, 25th February.

Computers In Society; Computer Weekly Interntional, 12th August.

Need For Protective Measures Against Threat To Freedom; The Times (special report) – 7th October.

1972 A Systems Approach To Management; Personnel Review, Spring.

Change Or Decay? The Teilhard Review, Vol. VIII, No.2, June: Symposium on Survival.

Managing Modern Complexity. Architectural Design, Vol. XLII, No.10.

1975 The Real Meaning Of Consensus Is That New Ideas Are Out; No. 8 in series ‘What Is Wrong With Britain?’, Sunday Telegraph, 28th September, 1975.

1976 The Betrayed Promises; Computer Weekly, Tenth Anniversary Edition, 23rd September, 1976.

1984 Hierarchic Computing Or Sharing Command?; Pioneer, Britoil Magazine, No.2, Winter, 1984.

Others

Status Quo; Established order 1973 – Not for publication.

The Extreme Centre; 1974 – Not for publication. Ref. Times Article

Reviews

1956 The Animal And The Machine; The New Scientist, No.4, 13th December, (Leader Review of De Latil’s book, Thinking by Machine).

1957 Analog Computer Techniques (Johnson), Electric Analog Computers (KORN); O.R. Quarterly, Vol.8, No.2, June.

Thank The War For This: (Review of Introduction To Operational Research); Engineering, Vol. 184, No. 4766, 12th July.

Theory And Practice; Review of Industry and Technical Progress, C.G. Carter and B.R. Williams, OUP, 1957. Automation Progress, Vol.3, No.3, March, 1958.

1958 The Rationalisation Of Industrial Decision Processes – W.T. Morris; Applied Statistics, Vol. VII, No.1, March.

The Reduction and Presentation Of Experimental Results – British Standards; Applied Statistics, Vol. VII, No.1, March.

1959 Operational Research In Practice; Review of NAT Conference, (Accountancy, March).

Scientist’s Testament; The Economist, 14th March. (Review of The Computer and the Brain by John Von Neumann).

1959 Explaining Cybernetics; The New Scientist, Vol. 5, No.130, 14th May. (Review of What is Cybernetics by G.T. Gilbaud).

1960 Model Decisions; Engineering, Vol. 189, No. 4901, 25th March. (Review article on Key to Accounting and Costing by Tainsh, and Theory of Storage by Moran).

Adaptation Mechanics; Engineering, Vol. 190, No. 4939,. 16th December. (Review of Design for a Brain, 2nd edition.

1961 Science And The Human Element; Engineering 23rd June. (Review of Decisions, Values and Groups – Notes on Opertional Research).

Self-Organising Systems; Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.12, No.2, June. (Review of conference Proceedings).

1962 A Present For Mr. Marples; Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.13, No. 1, March. (Review article of article under this heading by H.F. Ellis; Punch, Vol. CCXLII, No. 6334, 31 st January.

Operational Research Comes Of Age; Engineering, 15th June. (Review of Progress in Operational Research, Vol. 1, Ed. R.L. Ackoff).

Operational Research In Three Hours; Engineering, 24th August. (Review of A Guide to Operational Research by W.R. Duckworth).

A Methodology For systems Engineering; Control, August. (Review of book by Arthur D. Hall).

1962 A Guide To Operational Research; Research, September, Vol. XV, No.9, (Review of Duckworth’s book under this title).

1963 Prediction And Optimal Decision; Philosophy of Science (Journal of the American Philosophy of Science Association), Vol.30, No.1, January (Review article on West Churchman’s book).

International Conference On Machine Translation; Control, June, Vol.6, No.60. Review of Proceedings of NPL Symposium, 1961).

1963 Management Hodge-Podge. Engineering, 27th December. (Review of New Decision-Making Tools for Managers, Harvard).

1964 Quantity And Quality; The Hayden Colloquium on Scientiﬁc Method and Concept: Biometrica, Vol.50, (3 & 4).

1966 God And Golem Inc; The Month, January. Review of book by Norbet Weiner).

Models For Decision; Economic Journal, March, Vol. LXXVI, No. 301. Review of book).

Human Robots In Myth And Science; Control, July. Review of book by John Cohen).

1967 Conﬂict in Society; Political Studies, Vol. XV, No.2, June.

Living Control Systems; Operational Research Quarterly, Vol. 17, No.4, December, 1966. (Review of L.E. Bayliss’s Book).

1969 Engineering Cybernetics; Nature, Vol. 222, p. 395, 26th April, 1969. Review of Arthur Porter’s book).

Machine Intelligence 4; New Scientist, 19th June, 1969, p. 660. (Review of Edinburgh Conference Proceedings).

Re-Enacted Cybernetics; Nature, Vol. 223, No. 5203, 19th July, 1969. (Review of Cybernetic Association, USA Conference Purposive Systems, Ed. Von Forester, McMillan, 1969).

1969 Inventing Mathematics; Nature, September, 1969. (Review of Laws of Form by Spencer Brown).

1971 Lives; The Month, January. (Review of Philosopher King by Renee Hayes).

The Future Of The Future; The Teilhard Review, Vol.5, No.2. (Review of book by John McHale).

Technology, Management And Society; Futures, March (Review of book by Peter Drucker).

1971 Freedom In A Rocking Boat; The Teilhard Review, Vol. 6, No.1 (Review of book by Geoffrey Vickers).

1972 Recalling The Future; The Month, June. (Review of “Can We Survive Our Future?” by G.R. Urban).

1973 This Cybernetic World Of Men, Machines And Earth Systems; Technology and Culture, April 1973. (Review of V.L. Parsegian’s book).

Cybernetics – A Tool For Better Planning; Municipal and Public Services Journal, 2nd November, 1973. (Review of “Control and Urban Planning” by Brian McLoughlin).

1992 Hi-Fi-Sci-Fi. An appreciation of Judith Merril in Aloud Mazagine, Vol. 2, No.7, October, Toronto.

Audio

1977 Control Systems In Biology And Brain Regulation And Management Sstems; with IDS Beer. Discussion audio tapes with slides, Audio Learning Limited, April, 1977.

Video

(In Production)

Cybernetics At Falcondale: Stafford Beer initiates a small group into the world of systems and managerial cybernetics, including the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity at the Falcondale Hotel in Mid-Wales, UK.

Letters

1960 Letter On Extra-Sensory Perception; Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, March, Vol.40, No. 703.

1970 Open Reply From The President; in answer to Dr. John Lawrence, Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.21, No.3.

Intervies

1962 Can Cybernetics Solve Management’s Problems?; Scope, April – Part 1, May – Part 2 (interview with Peter Trippe).

1962 Can You Compete With The Computer?; Business, June. (Discussion with Sir Geoffrey Vickers, V.C., and Dr. Maurice Kendall).

1966 Vi Ma Lobe Hurtigt; Politisk Revy (Denmark) 4th November, Vor epoke feature (interview on cybernetics and politics given in Copenhagen).

1976 Next Generation Is Our Last Change; Computer Weekly, Rex Malik Interview, 14th October 1976.

1977 The Galloping Cyberneticist; Planning Revieew, Vol.5, No.3, May, 1977, USA and Canada. Interview by Robert J. Allio.

Informatique Et Gestion A Rencontre Stafford Beer; Informatique et Gestion, No. 86, April, 1977, interview by Rex Malik.

1982 The Shorter Catechism of Stafford Beer by Rex Malik. Datamation, February, 1982.

1983 A Message To The President Of Mexico. Published in Spanish by El Norte (Newspaper) 6th December, 1983.

Obituaries

1965 Professor Norbert Weiner; Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.15, No. 2, June, 1964.

1972 Professor Ross Ashby; The Times, 25 th November, 1972. Operational Research Quarterly, Vol.24, No.1, March, 1973.