Geoffrey Vickers - Publications

Publications

Geoffrey Vickers wrote several books, articles and papers:

World War II

• 1941, CURRENT AFFAIRS : issue 7 : 20 December 1941 : A Background Bulletin'

Later

• 1959, The Undirected Society. Essays on the human implications of industrialisation in Canada 1959
• 1965, The Art of Judgment : A Study of Policy Making (1965 - Republished December 1995) (In Print)
• 1967, Towards a sociology of management. (1967)
• 1968, Value systems and social process (1968 - Republished 2001) (In Print)
• 1972, Freedom in a rocking boat: changing values in an unstable society (Paperback - April 1972)
• 1973, Making Institutions Work (Textbook Binding - January 1973)
• 1980, Responsibility Its Sources and Limits (Paperback - June 1980)
• 1984, Human Systems Are Different (Paperback - December 1984)
• 1994, The Vickers Papers, Edited by the Open Systems Group (Paperback - December 1984)

About Vickers

• 1987, Guy B. Adams, John Forester and Bayard L. Catron (Ed.), Policymaking, Communication, and Social Learning, (Hardcover - July 1987)
• 1991, Jeanie Vickers (Ed.), Rethinking the Future : The Correspondence Between Geoffrey Vickers and Adolph Lowe, (Hardcover - June 1991)
• 1995, Margaret Blunden and Malcolm Dando (Ed.), Rethinking Public Policy-Making : Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs : Essays in Honour of Sir Geoffrey Vickers on His Centenary (Hardcover - September 1995). (In print)
• 2004, Ray Ison (ed.), "Geoffrey Vickers 2004: Contemporary Applications and Changing Appreciative Settings", Special Issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Volume 22, Issue 4.

Vickers writings in Adolph Lowe Archive

• "Purpose and Force; The Bases of Order" (pub), 1940.
• "Incomes and Earnings–A Steady State?" (pub.), circa 1960.
• "The Management of Conflict" (pub.), 1972.
• "Towards a More Stable State" (pub.), 1972.
• Copies of Vickers-Simon Correspondence (unpub. TS), 1973.
• "Whither the Mixed Economy?" (pub.), 1973.
• "Some Implications of Systems Thinking" (unpub. TS), 1978.
• "The Poverty of Problem-Solving" (unpub. TS), 1980.
• "Autonomous Yet Responsible?" (unpub. TS), undated.
• "The Weakness of Western Culture" (unpub. TS), undated.

For children

• "The secret of tarbury tor", Oxford Basil Blackwell, circa 1926.

Poetry

• "Moods and Tenses, 'Occasional Poems of an Old Man'" (private publication), 1983