Cybernetics of National Development

A Symposium at the
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
Vienna, Austria, April 1990

 

Presentations:

"A Preliminary Inventory of Theories Available to Guide the Reform of Socialist Societies"
Stuart A. Umpleby

"Rapid Change in Systems: Recent Developments in the Financing of American Industry"
William H. Becker

"Is the U.S. Free Market Really Free (of Government)?"
Paul A. Ballonoff

"Complexity and Change: Reflections upon the Cybernetic Intervention in Chile 1970-1973"
Raul Espejo

"Postcommunist Reforms from the Organizational Change Perspective"
Andrzej K. Kozminski and Krzysztof Obloj

"Alienation, Early Socialism, Perestroika, and Liberty"
Nickolai I. Lapin

"Large-Scale Social Reforms in Bulgaria"
Athanas Athanassov

"China's Economic Reform as a Case of Large-Scale Social Change"
Jixuan Hu and Xiaoyun Sun

"Comparing Conceptual Systems: A Strategy for Changing Values As Well As Institutions"
Stuart A. Umpleby