Dan Davies's 2024 application of cybernetics to explain why large institutions systematically fail to hold themselves accountable — arguing that organizations evolve accountability-absorbing mechanisms as a side effect of managing complexity.
Provides the most rigorous account of why institutional accountability fails — Davies argues that accountability is systematically absorbed by organizational structure (not just individuals), which means individual moral reform cannot solve the problem.
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