Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 1: Economic Analysis and Public Policy, vol 1
Herbert Simon
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Abstract:
The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Herbert Simon in 1978. At Carnegie Mellon University he holds the title of Professor of Computer Science and Psychology. These two facts together delineate the range and uniqueness of his contributions in creating meaningful interactions among fields that developed in isolation but that are all concerned with human decision-making and problem-solving processes. In particular, Simon has brought the insights of decision theory, organization theory (especially as it applies to the business firm), behavior modeling, cognitive psychology, and the study of artificial intelligence to bear on economic questions. This has led not only to new conceptual dimensions for theoretical constructions, but also to a new humanizing realism in economics, a way of taking into account and dealing with human behavior and interactions that lie at the root of all economic activity. Most of Simon's papers on classical and neoclassical economic theory are contained in volume one. The second volume collects his papers on behavioral theory, with some overlap between the two volumes.
Keywords: bounded rationality; classical economic theory; neoclassical economic theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 B (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0-262-69086-1
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