From this article, it is clear that Stafford Beer is quite the character.  His opinion of contemporary economics has considerable breadth; Alongside his definition of ‘variety’ which he does an excellent job of driving home, Beer has a fundamentally different approach to understanding cybernetics.  He uses the example of the personal computer, or any computer per se, to qualify cybernetics as “the techniques of the science of effective organization”.  I found this example to be the most relevant to any discussion of his work, as he uses it to describe how such a tool can be used to make incredibly important successful decisions, but also incredibly successful decisions incorrectly.  Again, to touch on variety and it’s application to cybernetics, Beer unearths the term requisite variety and explains how the term can contribute back to a regulatory constraint.  With the adjustment of such constraints, we can see that the output of such equations are affected, leading to a dramatic shift in decision making.