Stafford Beer achieved the hardest of all pedagogic tasks: he changed the way people think. His protean influence stretches from generations of inspired students, through Salvador Allende’s Chile, to ...

Mr. Chancellor, I have the honour to present to you Stafford Beer, a distinguished Scholar, businessman, management consultant, professor and poet. An international authority and consultant in the ...

If Stafford Beer is remembered at all today, it’s for a luckless cameo trying to help President Salvador Allende run Chile’s newly nationalized industries in the early 1970s. Back then, Beer was the ...

Stafford County, Va., just 35 miles south of Washington, D.C., offers an intriguing window into the mid-Atlantic’s long history of beer. On Route 1 in Stafford County, a simple highway marker offers ...

Stafford Beer, who died on Friday aged 75, was a leading exponent of cybernetics, the theory devised in the 1940s by Norbert Wiener which applied lessons from biology to the management of ...