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Working Papers

1983

1. On the Behavioral and Rational Foundation of Economic Theory
   Working Paper Series, Research Institute of Industrial Economics

1979

2. Autobiography
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee

1978

3. Rational Decision-Making in Business Organizations
   Nobel Prize in Economics documents, Nobel Prize Committee View citations (61)
   See also Journal Article Rational Decision Making in Business Organizations, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (1979) View citations (450) (1979)

Journal Articles

2002

1. Forecasting the future or shaping it?
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002, 11, (3), 601-605
2. Near decomposability and the speed of evolution
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002, 11, (3), 587-599 View citations (61)
3. Organizing and coordinating talk and silence in organizations
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002, 11, (3), 611-618 View citations (6)
4. We and they: the human urge to identify with groups
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002, 11, (3), 607-610 View citations (4)

2001

5. Complex Systems: The Interplay of Organizations and Markets in Contemporary Society
   Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 2001, 7, (2), 79-85
6. Pro- and anti-lists of the most significant contributions to economic literature of the twentieth century
   The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2001, 8, (3), 309-310
7. ¿Por qué la administración pública?
   Revista de Economía Institucional, 2001, 3, (4), 119-122 View citations (1)

2000

8. Barriers and bounds to Rationality
   Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2000, 11, (1-2), 243-253 View citations (10)
9. Bounded rationality in social science: Today and tomorrow
   Mind & Society: Cognitive Studies in Economics and Social Sciences, 2000, 1, (1), 25-39 View citations (68)

1999

10. The many shapes of knowledge
    Revue d'Économie Industrielle, 1999, 88, (1), 23-39 View citations (5)

1998

11. Perceiving and managing business risks: differences between entrepreneurs and bankers
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1998, 33, (2), 207-225 View citations (109)

1997

12. On the possibility of accurate public prediction
    Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), 1997, 26, (2), 127-132 View citations (1)
13. The future of information systems
    Annals of Operations Research, 1997, 71, 3-14 View citations (2)

1993

14. Altruism and Economics
    American Economic Review, 1993, 83, (2), 156-61 View citations (117)
    Also in Eastern Economic Journal, 1992, 18, (1), 73-83 (1992) View citations (9)
15. Strategy and organizational evolution
    Strategic Management Journal, 1993, 14, (S2), 131-142 View citations (31)

1991

16. Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning
    Organization Science, 1991, 2, (1), 125-134 View citations (366)
17. Organizations and Markets
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1991, 5, (2), 25-44 View citations (238)

1990

18. Prediction and Prescription in Systems Modeling
    Operations Research, 1990, 38, (1), 7-14 View citations (10)

1988

19. Causal ordering, comparative statics, and near decomposability
    Journal of Econometrics, 1988, 39, (1-2), 149-173 View citations (6)

1987

20. Decision Making and Problem Solving
    Interfaces, 1987, 17, (5), 11-31 View citations (10)
21. Two Heads Are Better than One: The Collaboration between AI and OR
    Interfaces, 1987, 17, (4), 8-15 View citations (8)

1986

22. Rationality in Psychology and Economics
    The Journal of Business, 1986, 59, (4), S209-24 View citations (42)
23. The Failure of Armchair Economics
    Challenge, 1986, 29, (5), 18-25 View citations (10)

1985

24. Human Nature in Politics: The Dialogue of Psychology with Political Science
    American Political Science Review, 1985, 79, (2), 293-304 View citations (115)
25. My Life Philosophy
    The American Economist, 1985, 29, (1), 15-20

1984

26. On the behavioral and rational foundations of economic dynamics
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1984, 5, (1), 35-55 View citations (50)

1983

27. What Is Industrial Democracy?
    Challenge, 1983, 25, (6), 30-39

1982

28. The rural-urban population balance again
    Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1982, 12, (4), 599-606 View citations (5)

1981

29. Information‐processing models of cognition
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1981, 32, (5), 364-377

1979

30. Rational Decision Making in Business Organizations
    American Economic Review, 1979, 69, (4), 493-513 View citations (450)
    See also Working Paper Rational Decision-Making in Business Organizations, Nobel Prize in Economics documents (1978) View citations (61) (1978)

1978

31. On How to Decide What to Do
    Bell Journal of Economics, 1978, 9, (2), 494-507 View citations (40)
32. Rationality as Process and as Product of Thought
    American Economic Review, 1978, 68, (2), 1-16 View citations (402)
33. The analysis of complex socioeconomic systems:, Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath & Co., 1975. xvii + 150 pp.; index. $14.00 cloth
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 1978, 2, (4), 394-396
34. The uses of mathematics in the social sciences
    Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 1978, 20, (3), 159-166 View citations (2)

1974

35. Interpretations of Departures from the Pareto Curve Firm-Size Distributions
    Journal of Political Economy, 1974, 82, (2), 315-31 View citations (69)

1973

36. Technology and Environment
    Management Science, 1973, 19, (10), 1110-1121 View citations (5)

1971

37. Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Business Firm Concentration
    Journal of Political Economy, 1971, 79, (2), 314-22 View citations (11)

1967

38. The BUSINESS SCHOOL A PROBLEM IN ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN
    Journal of Management Studies, 1967, 4, (1), 1-16 View citations (16)

1966

39. A note on Jost's law and exponential forgetting
    Psychometrika, 1966, 31, (4), 505-506

1963

40. A Note on the Cobb-Douglas Function
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1963, 30, (2), 93-94 View citations (14)

1962

41. A note on mathematical models for learning
    Psychometrika, 1962, 27, (4), 417-418 View citations (1)

1958

42. Heuristic Problem Solving: The Next Advance in Operations Research
    Operations Research, 1958, 6, (1), 1-10 View citations (29)
43. Letter to the Editor---Reply: Heuristic Problem Solving
    Operations Research, 1958, 6, (3), 449-450
44. [no title]
    American Political Science Review, 1958, 52, (2), 502-502

1957

45. Amounts of fixation and discovery in maze learning behavior
    Psychometrika, 1957, 22, (3), 261-268 View citations (1)

1956

46. A comparison of game theory and learning theory
    Psychometrika, 1956, 21, (3), 267-272 View citations (13)
47. Observation of a Business Decision
    The Journal of Business, 1956, 29, 237 View citations (22)

1955

48. A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1955, 69, (1), 99-118 View citations (2391)
49. A Linear Decision Rule for Production and Employment Scheduling
    Management Science, 1955, 2, (1), 1-30 View citations (51)
50. The Effect of Television upon Voting Behavior in Iowa in the 1952 Presidential Election*
    American Political Science Review, 1955, 49, (2), 470-477
51. The Impact of Certain Communication Nets Upon Organization and Performance in Task-Oriented Groups
    Management Science, 1955, 1, (3-4), 233-250 View citations (25)

1954

52. Staff and Management Controls
    The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1954, 292, (1), 95-103 View citations (1)
53. The Control of Inventories and Production Rates---A Survey
    Operations Research, 1954, 2, (3), 289-301 View citations (2)

1953

54. Comments on the Seminar Report
    American Political Science Review, 1953, 47, (3), 658-675

1952

55. A Comparison of Organisation Theories
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1952, 20, (1), 40-48 View citations (2)
56. Comments on the Theory of Organizations*
    American Political Science Review, 1952, 46, (4), 1130-1139 View citations (5)
57. “Development of Theory of Democratic Administration”: Replies and Comments
    American Political Science Review, 1952, 46, (2), 494-503 View citations (3)

1943

58. The Incidence of a Tax on Urban Real Property
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1943, 57, (3), 398-420 View citations (23)

1941

59. Further Comment
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1941, 55, (2), 325-330

1938

60. The Criterion of Efficiency
    The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1938, 199, (1), 20-25

Books

2009

1. An Empirically-Based Microeconomics
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (5)

1996

2. The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Edition, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations (464)

1992

3. Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (64)

1984

4. Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 1: Economic Analysis and Public Policy, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations (11)

Chapters

2012

1. The Architecture of Complexity
   Springer

1992

2. The game of chess
   Chapter 01 in Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, 1992, vol. 1, pp 1-17 View citations (11)

1966

3. Theories of Decision-Making in Economics and Behavioural Science
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (5)