01532    a2200169   4500008004100000020001900041080002000060100001600080245007600096260004200172300001000214520103300224650002001257650002201277650003801299650002501337250721b        ii ||||| |||| 00| 0 mal d  a978-1788169554  a658.008.1 DAV/U  aDavies,Dan   aThe Unaccountability machineb: Why big systems make terrible decisions  aGreat Britain:bProfile Books,c2024.  a294p.  aPart biography, part political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organizations to make catastrophic errors. When we avoid making 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 organizations as artificial intelligences, capable of making decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members. Management cybernetics was Beer's science of applying self-regulation in organizational settings, but it was largely ignored--resulting in the political and economic crises that that we see today. With his signature blend of cynicism and journalistic rigor, Davies looks at what's gone wrong, and what might have been, had the world listened to Stafford Beer when it had the chance  aDecision making  aPower of decision  aSocial responsibility of business  aCorporate governance