The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Education
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At a time when American industry was struggling to compete on the world stage, W. Edwards Deming — the statistician and management theorist who had already transformed post-war Japanese manufacturing — turned his penetrating gaze on the systemic failures plaguing industry, government, and education in The New Economics. This landmark work presents Deming's System of Profound Knowledge, a unified theory of management that argues the root cause of organisational dysfunction lies not in individual workers, but in the flawed systems designed by management itself, challenging nearly every assumption of conventional Western business practice. Deming's prose is direct, unsparing, and backed by decades of empirical observation, making The New Economics as much a philosophical manifesto as a practical guide. He illustrates, with characteristic rigour, how short-term thinking, performance rankings, and misplaced incentives actively destroy cooperation and innovation from within. The author's concept of Profound Knowledge — encompassing systems thinking, the theory of variation, the theory of knowledge, and psychology — remains a cornerstone of modern quality management and organisational theory. For anyone who has ever wondered why well-intentioned institutions so reliably produce poor results, this book poses a question that is impossible to dismiss.
Author: W. Edwards Deming
Format: Paperback
Genre: Business & economics
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At a time when American industry was struggling to compete on the world stage, W. Edwards Deming — the statistician and management theorist who had already transformed post-war Japanese manufacturing — turned his penetrating gaze on the systemic failures plaguing industry, government, and education in The New Economics. This landmark work presents Deming's System of Profound Knowledge, a unified theory of management that argues the root cause of organisational dysfunction lies not in individual workers, but in the flawed systems designed by management itself, challenging nearly every assumption of conventional Western business practice. Deming's prose is direct, unsparing, and backed by decades of empirical observation, making The New Economics as much a philosophical manifesto as a practical guide. He illustrates, with characteristic rigour, how short-term thinking, performance rankings, and misplaced incentives actively destroy cooperation and innovation from within. The author's concept of Profound Knowledge — encompassing systems thinking, the theory of variation, the theory of knowledge, and psychology — remains a cornerstone of modern quality management and organisational theory. For anyone who has ever wondered why well-intentioned institutions so reliably produce poor results, this book poses a question that is impossible to dismiss.