Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality
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It’s been twenty years since the death of Herb Simon. See Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Artificial intelligenceBounded RationalityHerbert Simonsatisficing
Herbert Simon and Some Unresolved Tensions in Professional Schools
The sixteenth (and final) in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Mie Augier and Bhavna Hariharan Organizing a professional school. Is very much like mixing oil with water: it is easy to describe the intended product, less easy to produce it. And the…
Bounded Rationality in the Digital Age
The fifteenth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Peter E. Earl One of the great tragedies in economics in the decades since Simon received the 1978 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is that the uptake of his ideas within the discipline…
Bounded Rationality, Shared Experiences, and Social Relationships in Herbert A. Simon’s Perspective
The fourteenth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Stefano Fiori In his autobiography, Herbert Simon writes: “The most important years of my life as a scientist were 1955 and 1956” (Simon, 1991a, p. 189). In those years he published two important articles that…
Models of Environment
The thirteenth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Marcin Miłkowski Herbert A. Simon is well known for his account of bounded rationality. Whereas classical economics idealized economic agency and framed rational choice in terms of the decision theory, Simon insisted that agents need…
Simon on Social Identification: Two Connections with Bounded Rationality
The twelfth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Rouslan Koumakhov Social identifications are one of Herbert Simon’s most recurrent themes. Starting with Administrative Behavior (hereafter, AB) (Simon, 1947/1997), he investigates that theme throughout his scientific work on an impressive number of occasions. Perhaps…
Organizational Decisions in the Lab
The eleventh in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Massimo Egidi “Bounded Rationality” is a label that gathers the most important advancements of Herbert Simon’s scientific production. His fundamental contributions to cognitive psychology and to the theory of problem solving were developed jointly, each…
Multiple Equilibria, Bounded Rationality, and the Indeterminacy of Economic Outcomes: Closing the System with Institutional Parameters
The tenth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Morris Altman A critical point made by behavioral economists from a wide set of methodological perspectives is that individuals typically do not make decisions that are consistent with conventional economic theoretical norms of rational…
Was Herbert Simon The 20th Century’s Galileo?
James H. Morris in the Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine. Artificial intelligencecomplexitycomputational intelligenceDaniel KahnemanHerbert Simon
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