STS mastodon: who/what should I be reading for history of operations research? trying to piece together some stuff in routing and navigation tech history and seems to all come back to OR but wondering if someone's actually written this up already
@ingrid Paging @joelitobarski, hopefully
@jcalpickard @ingrid I know that William Thomas' "Rational Action" (MIT Press, 2015) covers OR, and possibly there's also something in Erickson et al "How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind" (Chicago, 2013)?
@joelitobarski @jcalpickard thanks! Rational Action has been recommended a lot, looking forward to checking it out
@ingrid @jcalpickard btw, if you are interested in a broader historiography of cybernetics (which strongly intersects with OR) then this is wonderful: https://collopy.net/writing/2012/cybernetics-bibliography/
@ingrid @jcalpickard You're welcome - hope it's useful! Maybe Hunter Crowther-Heyck's work on Herbert Simon and systems science might also touch on OR