# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-stafford-beer
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:10:42.665Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-stafford-beer"
name: "Anthony Stafford Beer"
slug: "anthony-stafford-beer"
description: "Anthony Stafford Beer was a British theorist, consultant and professor at Manchester Business School. He is known for his work in the fields of operational research and management cybernetics, and for his heuristic in systems thinking, \"the purpose of a system is what it does.\""
tagline: "British theorist, consultant, and professor (1926-2002)"
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gender: "male"
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birthDate: "1926-09-25"
deathDate: "2002-08-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump