A Symposium at the
European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research
Vienna, Austria, April 1990
Presentations:
A Preliminary Inventory of Theories Available to Guide the Reform of Socialist Societies
Stuart A. Umpleby
Rapid Change in Systems: Recent Developments in the Financing of American Industry
William H. Becker
Is the U.S. Free Market Really Free (of Government)?
Paul A. Ballonoff
Complexity and Change: Reflections upon the Cybernetic Intervention in Chile 1970-1973
Raul Espejo
Postcommunist Reforms from the Organizational Change Perspective
Andrzej K. Kozminski and Krzysztof Obloj
Alienation, Early Socialism, Perestroika, and Liberty
Nickolai I. Lapin
Large-Scale Social Reforms in Bulgaria
Athanas Athanassov
China’s Economic Reform as a Case of Large-Scale Social Change
Jixuan Hu and Xiaoyun Sun
Comparing Conceptual Systems: A Strategy for Changing Values As Well As Institutions
Stuart A. Umpleby