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Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende's Chile

Eden Medina · Journal of Latin American Studies · 2006

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Article
Author
Eden Medina
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DOI 10.1017/S0022216X06001179
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2026-09-01
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Vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 571-606.

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TheoryMedina's history describes an interdisciplinary Chilean team, guided by Stafford Beer, that built cybernetic models of factories in the nationalised sector and a network for rapid transmission of economic data, and argues that the system's structure reflected the socialist ideology of the Allende government.