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6
Feb

Socio-Economic Reflections

   Posted by: dhcsoul    in Books (Cybernetics), cybernetics

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series A Learning Machine
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The Prince — Machiavelli

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

Level IV

Vickers, Geoffrey, Freedom in a Rocking Boat, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1970

Schon, Donald A., Beyond the Stable State, Random House, N.Y., 1971

Level V

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