... planning. This innovative approach, very different from the styles of reasoning in mathematical economics of his time, was grounded in his work on pattern recognition and informed by a cybernetic vision of control as information processing and communication in complex systems. From Pattern Recognition...

... the study of humans and machines communicating within closed-loop sys- tems of control cybernetics. In some cases, such as with the small turrets in bombers, it was still necessary for humans to be a part of the feedback loop. Indeed, despite all the mechanization, the enemy pilot had to be considered one...

... theory to cybernetics. As this profusion of analytical technologies gathered pace in the early years of the Cold War, practitioners of economics and cognate disciplines began to register what I term tool shock . Foundational debates about the epistemological properties and scientific legitimacy...

...William Thomas This article examines certain issues in postwar economic theory and compares them with related issues in the nascent fields of cybernetics, industrial dynamics, and operations research. Because all these fields had close connections to MIT, the comparison provides an opportunity...

.... This article focuses on the story of one group created by the control engineer Mark Aizerman at the Institute of Control Sciences in Moscow. It discusses the origins and the outstanding diversity and dynamics of the group’s research agenda, reconstructs the factors that made Aizerman turn from the cybernetics...

..., the Institute of Cybernetics founded by Glus- hkov provided automated management systems to some 80 percent of all pipelines.11 The OGAS story is important because it shows, “rst, the strategic impor- tance of computerization and, second, that the success of computerization was intertwined with the development...

... such as Pickering, Lily Kay, and Evelyn Fox Keller to have made us aware that there now exist a whole range of cyborg sciences: molecular genetics, information theory, computer science, chaos theory, cybernetics, neural psychobiology, artificial life, systems theory, operations research, and game...

... and control processes in man-made machines, in animal organisms, in the human mind, and in large human societies. This, I think, was probably the central contribution of his notion of cybernetics. Here he applied the notion of feedback to the theory of steering. The notion of cyber- netics...

... approaches. The movement sought to fur- ther, or to modernize, the development of Soviet society by introducing mathematical methods and systems science in what came to be called an economic cybernetics. History of Political Economy 51 (annual suppl.) DOI 10.1215/00182702-7903276 Copyright 2019 by Duke...

... economy and centralized planning later theoretically justified within the so-called economic cybernetics. However, this phenomenon is still worth our attention not only due to its ideological implications for Soviet economic thinking, but in view of grasping the social conditions of production...

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..., and the Cybernetic Apparatus .” Critical Inquiry 38 , no. 1 : 96 – 126 . Godelier Maurice . 2012 . Lévi-Strauss . Paris : Seuil . Guilbaud Georges-Théodule . 1949 . “ La Théorie des Jeux: Contribution Critique à la Théorie de la Valeur .” Economie Appliquée 2 , no. 2 : 275 – 319...

... Harald . 1970 . Economic Planning in Norway: Methods and Models . Oslo : Universitetsforlaget . Klein Lawrence R. Goldberger Arthur S. 1955 . An Econometric Model for the United States, 1929–1952 . Amsterdam : North-Holland . Kline Ronald R. 2015 . The Cybernetics...

... University Press. Bonnell, Victoria E., and George W. Breslauer. 2003. Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies. Global, Area, and International Archive. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4ct4x896 . Bowker, Geof. 1993 . How to Be Universal: Some Cybernetic Strategies, 1943–70. Social Studies of Science...

...-fifties, per- meated the whole of Soviet society, and what is true of economics is also true in varying degrees of historiography, cybernetics, theoretical physics, genetics, sociology, and even philosophy. The marked reduction in onerous Party supervision and censorship of the sciences...

... 3. Citations to early GE articles in non-social-science journals Category of journal Number of citations Mathematics and applied mathematics 139 Statistics and probability 30 Computer applications and cybernetics 45...

... after the postwar reconstruction. From the moment of Stalin s interment, economists, managers, and politi- cians had proposed schemes ranging from technical €xes to enterprise accounting, to bureaucratic reorganizations, to moonshot-level dreams of nationwide cybernetic networking. By the 1970s...

... are almost certainly post hoc, with Schweppe s inspiration coming from the cybernetic theory that had been so important for mathematical engineering and was noted as early as Wiener s in¥uential rst book on the topic (Wiener 1948; see also Boumans, this volume). Ivan Boldyrev (this volume) points to another...

... the universe ;to be divinely guided by the equiva- lent of a cybernetic mechanism. But he did not, perhaps because his conception of God did not correspond to the medieval European philosopher’s conception of God as rational in the sense that a Greek philosopher was rational.14 Alberuni ’s...

... have to bring in welfare economics, programing, operations research, cybernetics, etc.-i.e., the whole panoply of praxiological principles which, as we have seen, is the end product not 04 the Marxian but of the marginalist trend. MEEK - MARQINALISM AND MARXISM...