TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crowther-Heyck,Hunter
TI  - Herbert A. Simon: the bounds of reason in modern America 
SN  - 0801880254
AV  - HB119.S47 C76 2005
U1  - 330.092 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Simon, Herbert A.
KW  - Economists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Social scientists
KW  - System theory
KW  - History
KW  - Information theory in the social sciences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-409) and index; Introduction, (un)bounded rationality --; 1; The garden of forking paths --; 2; The Chicago school and the sciences of control --; 3; Mathematics, logic, and the sciences of choice --; 4; Research and reform --; 5; Homo Administrativus, or choice under control --; 6; Decisions and revisions --; 7; Structuring his environment --; 8; Islands of theory --; 9; A new model of mind and machine --; 10; The program is the theory --; 11; The cognitive revolution --; 12; Homo Adaptivus, the finite problem solver --; 13; Scientist of the artificial --; 14; The expert problem solver --; Conclusion : a model scientist --; App; Patrons of the revolution
N2  - "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."--BOOK JACKET
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