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Genre/Form: | Biographies History Biography |
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Named Person: | Herbert A Simon; Herbert A Simon; Herbert A Simon; Herbert Alexander Simon |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hunter Crowther-Heyck |
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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This biography is a fitting tribute to those accomplishments and the person who achieved them. -- David J. Pittenger PsycCRITIQUES 2005 One of the most important secondary works on postwar social science in America. -- Mark C. Smith American Historical Review 2006 Impressive study. -- Jon Agar Isis 2006 This book will be an essential starting point for the consideration of Simon's career in context. Journal of American History 2006 A welcome historiographical current is now bringing to light long-neglected links among the histories of technology, science, and economics. -- William Thomas Technology and Culture 2006 Read more...


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