Models of Bounded Rationality: Empirically grounded economic reasonMIT Press, 1997 - 457 sidor Annotation Throughout Herbert Simon's wide-ranging career-in public administration, business administration, economics, cognitive psychology, philosophy, artificial intelligence, and computer science-his central aim has been to explain the nature of the thought processes that people use in making decisions. The third volume of Simon's collected papers continues this theme, bringing together work on this and other economics-related topics that have occupied his attention in the 1980s and 1990s: how to represent causal ordering formally in dynamic systems, the implications for society of new electronic information systems, employee and managerial motivation in the business firm (specifically the implications for economics of the propensity of human beings to identify with the goals of organizations), and the state of economics itself. Offering alternative models based on such concepts as satisficing (acceptance of viable choices that may not be the undiscoverable optimum) and bounded rationality (the limited extent to which rational calculation can direct human behavior), Simon shows concretely why more empirical research based on experiments and direct observation, rather than just statistical analysis of economic aggregates, is needed. The twenty-seven articles, in five sections, each with an introduction by the author, examine the modeling of economic systems, technological change: information technology, motivation and the theory of the firm, and behavioral economics and bounded rationality. |
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I | 1 |
II | 9 |
III | 13 |
IV | 43 |
V | 105 |
VI | 115 |
VII | 129 |
VIII | 137 |
XVII | 257 |
XVIII | 267 |
XIX | 275 |
XX | 277 |
XXI | 291 |
XXII | 295 |
XXIII | 319 |
XXIV | 337 |
IX | 145 |
X | 163 |
XI | 173 |
XII | 183 |
XIII | 197 |
XIV | 205 |
XV | 217 |
XVI | 241 |
XXV | 343 |
XXVI | 367 |
XXVII | 387 |
XXVIII | 401 |
XXIX | 421 |
XXX | 433 |
Vanliga ord och fraser
aggregate alternatives altruism analysis artificial intelligence assume auxiliary assumptions behavioral economics bounded rationality business cycle business firms causal ordering causal relations choice cognitive complex components cost decision define definition depends derived described determine docility dynamic structure dynamic system econometric economic actors economic theory economists empirical employees employment environment equilibrating equilibrium evidence example exogenous fact fitness goals hence human identify important individual Inst(M institutional economics interactions kinds knowledge limits linear macroeconomic markets matrix mechanisms method minimal complete subsets mixed structure money illusion motivation nearly decomposable neoclassical theory nomic observed operate optimal organizational organizations phenomena postulate predict problem processes produce profit psychology Qout qualitative self-contained question rational expectations reasoning satisficing self-contained structure selfish Simon situation social society subjective expected utility subsystem tion utility function utility maximization values variables verbal
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Using Surveys to Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method Robert Cameron Mitchell,Richard T. Carson Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 1989 |
Not Just for the Money: An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation Bruno S. Frey Ingen förhandsgranskning - 1997 |