Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 3 Emperically Grounded Economic Reason By Herbert A. Simon

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附註 Includes bibliographies and index
內容 v. 1. Economic analysis and public policy -- v. 2. Behavioral economics and business organization -- v. 3. Empirically grounded economic reason


 前2本 Models of Bounded Rationality，可能1997年已絕版，所以 Herbert Simon 請MIT Press 印給我了。 (約1998)
很可惜，MIT Press 未提供 Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 3 的目次。 它是重要而有趣的：

Contents



      Introduction
      Acknowledgments



I     THE STRUCTURE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS

I.A   Causal Ordering
I.1    Causality in Economic Models
1.2    Causal Ordering, Comparative Statics, and Near Decomposability  (with Y. Iwasaki)
I.3    Causality and Model Abstraction(with Y. Iwasaki)

I.B  Simulating Large System
I.4   Simulation of Large-scale System by Aggregation
I.5   Prediction and Prescrption in System Modeling

II     THE ADVANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

II.1  The Rural-Urban Population Balance Again
II.2   The Impact of Electronic Communications on Organizations
II.3    The Steam Engine and the Computer : What Makes Technology Revolutionary
II.4    Managing in an Information-Rich World
II.5    On the Alienation of Works and Management


III     MOTIVATION AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM

III.1   A Mechanism for Social Selection and Successful Altruism
III.2   Organizations and Markets
III.3   Altruism and Economics : A Summary Statement
III.4    Altruism and Economics : Social Implications


IV    BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND BOUNDED RATIONALITY

IV.A Behavioral Economics
IV.1  Preface to Handbook of Behavioral Economics
IV.2  Behavioral Economics
IV.3  Bounded Rationality
IV.4  Satisficing

IV.B  Empirical Methods
IV.5   Behavior Research: Theory and Public Policy
IV.6   Methodological Foundations of Economics
IV.7   Preface to La théorie moderne de l'entreprise: l'approche institutionnelle

IV.C Initial and Boundary Conditions in Economic Theory
IV.8  On the Behavioral and Rational Foundations of Economic Dynamics
IV.9  Rationality in Psychology and Economics

IV.D The State of Economic Science
IV.10  The Failure of Armchair Economics
IV.11  Why Economists Disagree
IV.12   The State of Economic Science

IV.E Economic Reasoning in Words and Pictures
IV.13 Effect of Mode of Data Presentation on Reasoning about Economic Markets (with H. J. M. Tabachneck)


Index

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Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 3

Emperically Grounded Economic Reason

By Herbert A. Simon

Overview

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.

About the Author

Herbert Simon is Professor of Psychology at Carnegie-Mellon University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1978.