| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 399 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology
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Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Prelude; 1 A.V. Hill in World War I, and His Complaints Afterward; 2 Colonel Blimp: Tradition, Authority, and the Difficulty of Progress; 3 Military Heuristics and the Allied Bombing Campaigns; II The Origins of the Sciences of Policy; 4 L.B.C. Cunningham and the Mathematical Theory of Combat; 5 Patrick Blackett and the Anti-Aircraft Command Research Group; 6 Scientific Advisers and Operational Research in the British Military Services; 7 "Not Yet Enough": The British Rhetoric of Science and Its Coordination. |
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8 Operations Research and Field Liaison, 1941-1945III A Wartime Intellectual Economy; 9 The Legitimacy of Wartime Operations Research; 10 The Methods of Operations Research; 11 Meta-Calculation and the Mathematics of War; 12 John Williams, Edwin Paxson, and the Stop-Gap Mathematical Life; 13 The B-29 Problem; 14 Raisins in the Oatmeal; IV The Lessons of the War; 15 Operations Research without Operations; 16 The Challenge of Rational Procurement; 17 Wartime Operational Research in Postwar Britain; 18 The Operational Research Club; 19 The American Reinvention of Operations Research. |
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V Rationality and Theory20 Theories of Decision, Allocation, and Design; 21 The Anatomy of Decision: Inventory Theory; 22 The Rise of Theoretical Operations Research; 23 Systems Analysis: The Challenge of Rational Engineering; 24 Rationality and Decision: Varieties of Theory; VI The Intellectual Economy of Theory and Practice; 25 The Civilianization of Operations Research on the Charles; 26 West Churchman, Russell Ackoff, and the Philosophy of Decision Making; 27 The Management Sciences; 28 The Reformation of Systems Analysis; VII Epilogue; 29 Dr. Strangelove: Rationality, Authority, and Sin. |
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30 ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The evolution of a set of fields -- including operations research and systems analysis -- intended to improve policymaking and explore the nature of rational decision-making. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science and state -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Science and state. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Science and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science |
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General |
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SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Technology |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Thomas, William, 1979- Rational action 9780262028509 (DLC) 2014029657 (OCoLC)884961990 |
| ISBN |
9780262324175 (electronic book) |
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0262324172 (electronic book) |
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9780262028509 |
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0262028506 |
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