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The United Kingdom has perhaps never needed a Systems Society as much as it does now. Public policy-making is dominated by the supposed efficacy of the “free market” in delivering the “goods”. The challenge to cybernetics and systems science is to demonstrate the flaws in such a philosophy and, at the same time, show how “market forces” can best be harnessed to the public good.
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Floyd, M. (1989). Designing An Equal Opportunities Policy Framework — A Cybernetic Perspective. In: Flood, R.L., Jackson, M.C., Keys, P. (eds) Systems Prospects. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0845-4_35
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