Rindzevičiūtė: Power of Systems

Authors

  • Christian Dayé

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25364/11.3:2018.1.5

Keywords:

history of the social sciences in the Cold War era

Abstract

Book review of: 

Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė. 2016. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2016.
306 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-5017-0318-8
Price: $ 49.95

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Published

2018-03-01

How to Cite

Dayé, C. (2018) “Rindzevičiūtė: Power of Systems”, Serendipities. Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, 3(1), pp. 48–51. doi: 10.25364/11.3:2018.1.5.