Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers.
Annoyingly it doesn't mention who the 30 people are. A bit of googling reveals the missing information:
Early Cybernetics
- Gregory Bateson
- Norbert Wiener
- Warren McCullough
- Margaret Mead
- W. Ross Ashby
General Systems Theory
- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
- Kenneth Boulding
- Geoffrey Vickers
- Howard Odum
System Dynamics
- Jay Forrester
- Donella Meadows
- Peter Senge
Soft and Critical Systems
- C. West Churchman
- Russell Ackoff
- Peter Checkland
- Werner Ulrich
- Michael Jackson
Later Cybernetics
- Heinz von Foerster
- Stafford Beer
- Humberto Maturana
- Niklas Luhmann
- Paul Watzlawick
Complexity Theory
- Ilya Prigogine
- Stuart Kauffman
- James Lovelock
Learning Systems
- Kurt Lewin
- Eric Trist
- Chris Argyris
- Donald Schön
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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