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Are you familiar with Shaikh's Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, and Crisis? I've been slowly going through the book for some time and these descriptions are also explained there. Its one of sources I pull from in my own understanding
I sure do, he's one of my primary sources alongside Stafford Beer
Do you have any good recommendations for understanding the Viable Systems Model? Something more formal than the descriptions one can easily find on YouTube or wikipedia? I am acquainted with some modern complexity science, and have wanted to find where complexity science meets old school cybernetics.
Beer's book Platform for Change is my go to resource, but if you want more technical stuff his book Diagnosing the System for Organizations is interesting, because you literally see him describing how the system forces the choices I illustrated in my previous comment that capitalists face every day
What stuff by Stafford Beer have you enjoyed the most?
Platform for Change and Diagnosing the System for Organizations are my main resources from Beer