Nature 205, 223 - 231 (16 January 1965); doi:10.1038/205223a0

The World, The Flesh and The Metal: The Prerogatives of Systems

STAFFORD BEER

Managing Director, SIGMA (Science in General Management, Ltd.), Croydon, Surrey

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2. Beer, Stafford , The Cost Accountant, 42, No. 6, June 1964 (also obtainable from SIGMA, Ltd., as a pamphlet).
3. Ross Ashby, W. , Design for a Brain (Chapman and Hall (London), 1952: revised edition, 1960).
4. Beer, Stafford , Operational Res. Quart., 13, No. 2 (June 1962).
5. Beer, Stafford , The Manager, October and November, 1963; Metra Journal, 3, No. 1 (1964) (also obtainable from SIGMA, Ltd., as a reprint).