Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution By Herbert A. Simon等多人

• 2008 (posthumously). Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution. Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 1847208967. reprint some of his papers not widely read by economists.

Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution

The late Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), Carnegie-Mellon University, US and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978, Massimo Egidi, LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy, Riccardo Viale, Fondazione Rosselli, Torino, Italy and Robin Marris, formerly Professor Emeritus, Birkbeck College, London, UK

The purpose of this book is to publish the ideas of the late Herbert Simon and sympathetic economists, on the subject of bounded rationality, economics, cognitive science and related disciplines, and to reprint some of Professor Simon’s classic papers which have appeared in journals not widely read by economists.

Contents

Contents: Introduction 

Part I: Bounded Rationality: Discussion 1. Introductory Comment 

2. Colloquium with H.A. Simon 

Part II: Herbert Simon Reprints

 3. Rational Choice and the Structure of the Environment (1956) 

4. Thinking by Computers (1966) 

5. Information Processing in Computer and Man (1964) 

6. Scientific Discovery as Problem Solving (1988) 

Part III: New Papers

 7. Subjective Rationality and the Explanation of Social Behaviour by Raymond Boudon 

8. Organizational Learning, Problem Solving and the Division of Labour by Massimo Egidi 

9. Cognitive Constraints of Economic Rationality by Riccardo Viale

10. Implications for Economics by Robin Marris 

Index