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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55511492 Title: Herbert A. Simon : the bounds of reason in modern America Author: Hunter Crowther-Heyck Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN/ISSN: 0801880254 9780801880254 OCLC:55511492

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Herbert A. Simon : the bounds of reason in modern America

Author:	Hunter Crowther-Heyck
Publisher:	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Edition/Format:	Print book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"In this study, Hunter Crowther-Heyck explores Herbert Simon's contributions to science and then influences on modern life and thought. For historians of science, social science, and technology and for scholars of twentieth-century American intellectual and cultural history, this account of Herbert Simon's life and work provides a rich and valuable perspective."--Jacket.
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Subjects	Simon, Herbert A. -- (Herbert Alexander), -- 1916-2001. Simon, Herbert A. -- (Herbert Alexander), -- 1916-2001 Simon, Herbert Alexander. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	Biography History
Named Person:	Herbert A Simon; Herbert A Simon; Herbert Alexander Simon; Herbert A Simon
Material Type:	Biography, Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Hunter Crowther-Heyck Find more information about:
ISBN:	0801880254 9780801880254
OCLC Number:	55511492
Description:	xi, 420 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:	Introduction: (Un)bounded rationality -- The garden of forking paths -- The Chicago School and the sciences of control -- Mathematics, logic, and the sciences of choice -- Research and reform -- Homo administrativus, or choice under control -- Decisions and revisions -- Structuring his environment -- Islands of theory -- A new model of mind and machine -- The program is the theory -- The cognitive revolution -- Homo adaptivus, the finite problem solver -- Scientist of the artificial -- The expert problem-solver -- Conclusion: A model scientist.
Responsibility:	Hunter Crowther-Heyck.
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