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Item Details
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MODELS OF BOUNDED RATIONALITY
EMPIRICALLY GROUNDED ECONOMIC REASON |
| By: |
Herbert A. Simon |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£30.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0262519437 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780262519434 |
| Publisher: |
MIT PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
29 July, 1997 |
| Series: |
Models of Bounded Rationality |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Offering alternative models based on such concepts as satisficing(acceptance of viable choices that may not be the undiscoverableoptimum) and bounded rationality (the limited extent to which rationalcalculation can direct human behavior), Simon shows concretely whymore empirical research based on experiments and direct observation, rather than just statistical analysis of economic aggregates, isneeded. |
| Synopsis: |
Throughout Herbert Simon's wide-ranging career -- in public administration, business administration, economics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science -- his central aim has been to explain the nature of the thought processes that people use in making decisions.The third volume of Simon's collected papers continues this theme, bringing together work on this and other economics-related topics that have occupied his attention in the 1980s and 1990s: how to represent causal ordering formally in dynamic systems, the implications for society of new electronic information systems, employee and managerial motivation in the business firm (specifically the implications for economics of the propensity of human beings to identify with the goals of organizations), and the state of economics itself.Offering alternative models based on such concepts as satisficing (acceptance of viable choices that may not be the undiscoverable optimum) and bounded rationality (the limited extent to which rational calculation can direct human behavior), Simon shows concretely why more empirical research based on experiments and direct observation, rather than just statistical analysis of economic aggregates, is needed.The twenty-seven articles, in five sections, each with an introduction by the author, examine the modeling of economic systems, technological change: information technology, motivation and the theory of the firm, and behavioral economics and bounded rationality. |
| Reader Age: |
From 18 years |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
MIT Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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