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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Vernon Smith @ 93
A belated happy birthday to Vernon. Adam SmithconstructivismDaniel KahnemanEconomicsNobel Prizesituated cognitionVernon L. Smith
The Beginnings of Behavioral Economics
My chum and sometime collaborator Roger Frantz has a new book out. Amos TverskyBehavioral economicsDaniel KahnemanFriedrich HayekGeorge KatonaHarvey LeibensteinHerbert SimonRichard Thalerroger frantzX-efficiency theory
Bounded Rationality and Cognitive Limits in Political Decision Making
Open access. Amos TverskyBounded RationalityCognitive sciencecomplexityDaniel KahnemanElinor OstromGerd GigerenzerHerbert Simonheuristicsorganization theoryrationalismsatisficingsituated cognition
Harris in conversation with Kahneman
The Harris-Kahneman chat is here. Below is my entry for Kahneman in Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics. Amos TverskyBehavioral economicsCognitive scienceconsciousnessDaniel KahnemanPsychologysam harris
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed the World
Listen to Michael Lewis discuss his latest book on Freakonomics Radio: “The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution” (skip to 1:50) and on Charlie Rose (much better than the former discussion); plus some print reviews in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the FT and The Economist. Below is a draft encyclopedia entry on Daniel Kahneman (and Amos…
REAL-WORLD DECISION MAKING: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Now available — I have the following entries included: Brain Scans and Behavioral Economics pp. 39-40 Complexity and Heuristics pp. 70-71 Daniel Kahneman (1934-) pp. 231-232 Neuroplasticity pp. 285-287 The Pretence of Knowledge pp. 333-334 Spontaneous Order pp. 409-410 Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) pp. 297-298 Herbert Simon (1916 – 2001) pp. 387-388 (with Roger Frantz) Behavioral…
WOULD You Kill the Fat Man?
When moral dilemmas are posed in a foreign language, people become more coolly utilitarian — The Economist Daniel Kahnemanlanguagemoral philosophyMoral psychologyPsychologyUtilitarianism
Real World Decision Making: An Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Economics
Coming soon. amos tveskyBehavioral economicsbrain imagingcomplexityDaniel KahnemanDecision makingFriedrich HayekHerbert SimonmdiMichael Oakeshottmorris altmanneuroplasticityReal World Decision Making: An Encyclopaedia of Behavioral Economicssituated cognitionSpontaneous orderthe pretense of knowledge
Risky business
A new article in the latest issue of the PNAS entitled “Predicting risky choices from brain activity patterns“ (h/t to Shannon Selin). This study reminds me of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work: Prospect theory concerns the psychophysics of wealth utility: that is, the perceived tradeoffs between potential outcomes and the probability of some outcome occurring. Kahneman…
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