Magnus Ramage • Karen Shipp
Systems Thinkers
4y Springer Contents
Introduction 1
Early Cybernetics 1 Gregory Bateson 11 Reading from G. Bateson's work 14
2 Norbert Wiener 19 Reading from Wiener's work 23
3 Warren McCulloch 27 Reading from McCulloch's work 31
4 Margaret Mead 35 Reading from Mead's work 39
5 W Ross Ashby 45 Reading from Ashby's work 49
General Systems Theory 6 Ludwig von Bertalanffy 57 Reading from Bertalanffy's work 61
7 Kenneth Boulding 67 Reading from Boulding's work 71
8 Geoffrey Vickers '. 77 Reading from Vickers' work 81 vi Contents
9 Howard Odum 87 Reading from Odum's work 91
System Dynamics 10 Jay Forrester .' 99 Reading from Forrester's work 104
11 Donella Meadows 109 Reading from Meadows' work 113
12 Peter Senge 119 Reading from Senge's work 124
Soft and Critical Systems 13 C. West Churchman 131 Reading from Churchman's work 135
14 Russell Ackoff 139 Reading from Ackoff's work 143
15 Peter Checkland 149 Reading from Checkland's work 154
16 Werner Ulrich 159 Reading from Ulrich's work 163
17 Michael Jackson 169 Reading from Jackson's work 173
Later Cybernetics 18 Heinz von Foerster 179 Reading from von Foerster's work 183
19 Stafford Beer 189 Reading from Beer's work 193 Contents vii
20 Humberto Maturana 199 Reading from Maturana's work 203
21 Niklas Luhmann 209 Reading from Luhmann's work 213
22 Paul Watzlawick 217 Reading from Watzlawick's work 221
Complexity Theory 23 Ilya Prigogine 229 Reading from Prigogine's work 233
24 Stuart Kauffman 239 Reading from Kauffman's work 243
25 James Lovelock 249 Reading from Lovelock's work 253
Learning Systems 26 Kurt Lewin 259 Reading from Lewin's work 264
27 EricTrist 269 Reading from Trist's work 274
28 Chris Argyris 279 Reading from Argyris' work 283
29 Donald Schon 289 Reading from Schon's work 293
30 Mary Catherine Bateson 299
Reading from M.C. Bateson's work 303
Afterword 307
Index 311