1st Edition

Value Systems and Social Process

Edited By Geoffrey Vickers Copyright 1968

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
    This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
    Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1968 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

    Part 1 The Ecology of Ideas; Chapter 1 Some Ideas of Progress; Chapter 2 Ecology, Planning and the American Dream; Chapter 3 The End of Free Fall; Part 2 The Tower of Babel; Chapter 4 The Limits of Government; Chapter 5 Planning and Policy-making; Chapter 6 The Multi-valued Choice; Part 3 Beyond Descartes; Chapter 7 Appreciative Behaviour; Chapter 8 The Normative Process; Chapter 9 Science is Human;

    Biography

    Vickers Geoffrey