Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon

Gerd Gigerenzer, Shabnam Mousavi, Riccardo Viale (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

354 Seiten

2024
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80037-067-8 (ISBN)

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Honoring the life and work of Herbert Simon, this illuminating Companion provides an in-depth survey of one of the most prolific social scientists of our age. Mirroring the breadth of Simon’s studies, chapters analyze his contributions to artificial intelligence, economics, entrepreneurship, management, psychology and other fields.

The comprehensive book outlines how Herbert Simon came to be the only person to receive both the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Turing Award in Computer Science. Bounded rationality, satisficing and heuristic search are just a few of his seminal ideas that pioneered behavioral economics and artificial intelligence. Elucidating how Simon freed the study of human behavior from the dictates of subjective expected utility theory and Bayesian theory, chapters discuss how he instead promoted the development of empirically based theories on the behavior of individuals, organizations and machines. Interdisciplinary contributors thoughtfully explore his groundbreaking ideas, examining Simon’s influence on their own work and even their personal outlook on life.

This Companion enables the ideas of Herbert Simon to live on. It is a foundational resource for scholars of disciplines such as cognitive science, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, behavioral and experimental economics, econometrics, economic psychology, industrial organization, and public administration and management.

Edited by Gerd Gigerenzer, Herbert Simon Society; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, Shabnam Mousavi, Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENTAI), Turin, Italy and Riccardo Viale, Herbert Simon Society;Department of Economics, University of Milano-Bicocca; School of European Public Economics, LUISS, Rome, Italy

Contents:

Introduction: Simon says 1
Gerd Gigerenzer, Shabnam Mousavi and Riccardo Viale
1 Herbert Simon: a daughter’s view 5
Katherine Simon Frank

PART I ARE MINDS LIKE COMPUTERS?
2 Herbert Simon on mind as computer 15
Gerd Gigerenzer and Daniel G. Goldstein
3 Symbols and search in humans and machines 33
Pat Langley

PART II WHAT MAKES ADMINISTRATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS?
4 Beggars and horseless: entrepreneurial origins of organizations
and markets 57
Saras Sarasvathy
5 Reflections on descriptive and prescriptive issues in
Administrative Behavior, the work for which Herbert Simon
received the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 78
Hersh Shefrin
6 Simon and Knight 98
J.-C. Spender

PART III WHAT IS BOUNDED RATIONALITY?
7 A double-edged metaphor: Simon and the scissors of bounded
rationality 130
Enrico Petracca
8 From bounded rationality to ecological rationality 148
Gerd Gigerenzer
9 Intelligence versus rationality: Simon’s dueling reference points 176
Jonathan Bendor

PART IV SOLVING PROBLEMS
10 Enactive problem solving: an alternative to the limits of
decision making 197
Riccardo Viale
11 Problem solving, bounded rationality and the enigma of thought 227
Laura Macchi and Maria Bagassi

PART V ORGANIZATIONS, HEURISTICS, AND LIFE LESSONS
12 Study of organization without strategy: structural rationality 249
Shabnam Mousavi and Shyam Sunder
13 Representations, frames and the dynamics of routines:
rethinking routines as artifacts 277
Massimo Egidi, Luigi Marengo and Giacomo Sillari
14 Heuristics for metascience: Simon and Popper 299
Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Julian N. Marewski and Ulrich Hoffrage

PART VI FINALE: SIMON SAID
15 Simon said: Herb’s research rules and life lessons 313
Robert Axtell

Erscheinungsdatum	24.04.2024
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-80037-067-9 / 1800370679
ISBN-13	978-1-80037-067-8 / 9781800370678
Zustand	Neuware