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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. |
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9780262324175 (electronic bk.) |
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0262324172 (electronic bk.) |
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9780262028509 |
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0262028506 |
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(WaSeSS)ssj0001461358 |
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