Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon

Edited by Gerd Gigerenzer, Shabnam Mousavi and Riccardo Viale

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Abstract: Honoring the life and work of Herbert Simon, this illuminating Companion provides an in-depth survey of one of the most prolific social scientists of our age. Mirroring the breadth of Simon’s studies, chapters analyze his contributions to artificial intelligence, economics, entrepreneurship, management, psychology and other fields.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
ISBN: 9781800370678
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Herbert Simon: a daughter’s view , pp 5-11

Katherine Simon Frank

Ch 2 Herbert Simon on mind as computer , pp 15-31

Gerd Gigerenzer and Daniel Goldstein

Ch 3 Symbols and search in humans and machines , pp 33-54

Pat Langley

Ch 4 Beggars and horseless: entrepreneurial origins of organizations and markets , pp 57-76

Saras Sarasvathy

Ch 5 Reflections on descriptive and prescriptive issues in Administrative Behavior, the work for which Herbert Simon received the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics , pp 78-97

Hersh Shefrin

Ch 6 Simon and Knight , pp 99-128

J.-C. Spender

Ch 7 A double-edged metaphor: Simon and the scissors of bounded rationality , pp 131-147

Enrico Petracca

Ch 8 From bounded rationality to ecological rationality , pp 149-175

Gerd Gigerenzer

Ch 9 Intelligence versus rationality: Simon’s dueling reference points , pp 177-194

Jonathan Bendor

Ch 10 Enactive problem-solving: an alternative to the limits of decision making , pp 198-226

Riccardo Viale

Ch 11 Problem solving, bounded rationality and the enigma of thought , pp 228-245

Laura Macchi and Maria Bagassi

Ch 12 Study of organization without strategy: structural rationality , pp 250-274

Shabnam Mousavi and Shyam Sunder

Ch 13 Representations, frames and the dynamics of routines: rethinking routines as artifacts , pp 278-296

Massimo Egidi, Luigi Marengo and Giacomo Sillari

Ch 14 Heuristics for metascience: Simon and Popper , pp 300-311

Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Julian N. Marewski and Ulrich Hoffrage

Ch 15 Simon said: Herb’s research rules and life lessons , pp 314-335

Robert Axtell

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