Cybersyn

StaffordBeer and the Chilean government (under Allende) tried to build a cybernetics based control for the economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

Just before Pinochet comes in and wrecks it. So the obvious suspicion is whether the ChicagoSchool backed coup was partly to try to wreck the possibility / experiment of centralized economic control.

Now a major podcast series : https://the-santiago-boys.com/episodes by EvgenyMorozov