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Herbert A. Simon

Simon, Herbert Alexander

Herbert Alexander Simon, 1916–2001, American social scientist and economist, b. Milwaukee, grad. Univ. of Chicago (B.A., 1936, Ph.D., 1943). A professor of computer science and psychology at Carnegie-Mellon Univ. from 1949 until his death, Simon was a pioneer of the development of computer artificial intelligence. In economics, he contended that the theory of "economic man," which argues that the individual invariably chooses a course that will maximize personal benefits, failed to account for the inherent uncertainty of human action. His highly original work on decision-making in such books as Administrative Behavior (1947, 4th ed. 1997), in which he argued that business executives often fail to maximize profits because they make decisions without assessing all information and long-term effects, earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1978. Simon's other books include Scientific Discovery (1987).

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Complex Information Processing: The Impact of Herbert A. Simon
David Klahr; Kenneth Kotovsky. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989

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Remembering Herbert A. Simon (1916-2001)
Augier, Mie; March, James G. Public Administration Review, Vol. 61, No. 4, July 2001

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Representation and Meaning: Experiments with Information Processing Systems
Herbert A. Simon; Laurent Siklóssy. Prentice-Hall, 1972

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Reason in Human Affairs
Herbert A. Simon. Stanford University Press, 1983

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Public Administration
Herbert A. Simon; Donald W. Smithburg; Victor A. Thompson. Alfred A. Knopf, 1950

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John R. Commons and Herbert A. Simon on the Concept of Rationality
Forest, Joelle; Mehier, Caroline. Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 35, No. 3, September 2001

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Why Public Administration?
Simon, Herbert A. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1998

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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Carlos Fuentes; Ilya Prigogine; David Gauthier; Herbert A. Simon; H. C. Robbins Landon; Sterling M. McMurrin. University of Utah Press, vol.5, 1984

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Current Trends in Psychological Theory: A Bicentennial Program
Wayne Dennis; Dorwin Cartwright; E. Lowell Kelly; B. F. Skinner; Alan E. Fisher; Mark R. Rosenzweig; David Krech; Edward L. Bennett; Peter M. Milner; William K. Estes; Allen Newell; Herbert A. Simon; Howard H. Kendler; O. Hobart Mowrer. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1961

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Cognitive Process Instruction: Research on Teaching Thinking Skills
Jack Lochhead; John Clement. Franklin Institute Press, 1979

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Knowledge and Cognition
Lee W. Gregg. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1974

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Contemporary Approaches to Creative Thinking: A Symposium Held at the University of Colorado
Howard E. Gruber; Glenn Terrell; Michael Wertheimer. Atherton, 1962

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Scientific Discovery Processes in Humans and Computers: Theory and Research in Psychology and Artificial Intelligence
Morton Wagman. Praeger, 2000

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