*As documented in some detail in my book, The Age of Discontinuity (London: Heinemann, 1969).
*On this New Pluralism, see The Age of Discontinuity, especially Part Three: “A Society of Organizations.”
*Anthony Jay: Management and Machiavelli (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1967).
†Published in the United Kingdom as Big Business.
*This, of course, also underlies the rapid return to profit and profitability as yardsticks and determinants of allocation decisions in the developed communist countries, that is, Russia and the European satellites.
*S. B. Hamilton only expresses the prevailing view of technologists when he says (in Singer’s History of Technology, IV, 469) in respect to the architects of the Gothic cathedral and their patrons that there ...
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