Leseprobe
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies
* Affiliatelinks/Werbelinks
Links auf reinlesen.de sind sogenannte Affiliate-Links. Wenn du auf so einen Affiliate-Link klickst und über diesen Link einkaufst, bekommt reinlesen.de von dem betreffenden Online-Shop oder Anbieter eine Provision. Für dich verändert sich der Preis nicht.
Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Informatik, EDV
Beschreibung
LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
'A great book ... a wonderful way of talking about our current world' Rory Stewart
'Entertaining, insightful ... compelling' Financial Times
'One of the most insightful books I've read in a long time' Sam Freedman
'The kind of book from which you look up to find the world suddenly more comprehensible. Also, it's about ten times funnier than any book about management has the right to be' Guardian
When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members.
Management cybernetics was Beer's science of applying self-regulation in organisational settings, but it was largely ignored - with the result being the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigour, Davies looks at what's gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance.
Rezensionen
A fascinating exploration
<i>The Unaccountability Machine</i> offers a timely reminder: the machines we fear most are the ones we'
Mischievous and fiercely intelligent
There's never been a better rebuttal of the neoliberal assumption that clever systems can run themselves without continuous human engagement and oversight. This book shows that humane results need human inputs: science will help us, but we have to help it too. There'
Entertaining, insightful ... Dan Davies makes a compelling case for the use of Stafford beer'
Really worthwhile. Dan Davies' concept of accountability sinks is a great example of what Edwin Schlossberg meant when he noted that "
One of the most insightful books I'
Dan Davies looks at how discreet problems, from bad business management to disastrous political decisions, are often a failure of faulty systems. A great way to think about our current moment
Drawing on the work of economist Stafford Beer, Davies explores why big systems often make flawed decisions or duck out of them altogether - and the damaging consequences that can follow.
Davies explains the basic logic of an accountability sink: decision-making power is removed from individuals you might want to shout at, and made instead by an algorithm or some distant committee both ignorant of and immune to your objections
Very readable ... A great way to think about our current moment.
An extraordinary book ... we all blame 'The System' for numerous woes, but what is The System? Dan Davies' immensely readable book tells us how there actually isn't one - it'
It is always rewarding to learn how things work, and <i>The Unaccountability Machine</i> lucidly shows the inner workings of corporate life and its systematic
Wonderful ... fascinating ... tackles very contemporary problems by reviving the discipline of cybernetics and the work of Stafford Beer, with passing discursions involving squirrels, Brian Eno, Milton Friedman and a well-deserved kicking delivered to the discipline of modern economics.
Everybody wonders why nobody is ever to blame for a crisis. Diving into cybernetics, economics and management, Dan Davies explains why it'
Interesting, unpredictable, and thought-provoking ... If you have ever worked in an organisation, let alone a large or badly managed one, you will have moments of recognition in reading this, a sense that [Stafford] Beer has rigorously theorised what you encounter every day
Not just a glorious tour of a neglected piece of intellectual history, though it is that, in passing. Really, a demonstration with unexpected tools that the world since the 1970s, far from being governed by steely economic rationality, has actually been in the grip of an ideologised greed that has systematically undermined our ability to manage and organise
A great book ... a wonderful way of talking about our current world
Quirky and very intelligent ... <i>The Unaccountability Machine</i> explores how organisations get into the bizarre but common situation of acting in line with "process"
Funny, fascinating and compelling - this is a book to make you chuckle, to make you angry, and above all to make you think
The most hope-inducing, game-changing book I've read recently ... The kind of book from which you look up to find the world suddenly more comprehensible. Also, it'
A clear and compelling account of how decision-making works, or rather doesn'
Kundenbewertungen
Stafford Beer, politics, Black Swan, cybernetics, management books, neoliberalism, war, Pinochet, systems management, Rory Stewart, tech books, economics books, AI books, business books