دانلود کتاب Rational Action: The Sciences of Policy in Britain and America, 1940-1960

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Contents
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
8 Operations Research and Field Liaison, 1941–1945
III 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
V Rationality and Theory
20 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
30 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index