Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon

by Roger Frantz (Editor), Leslie Marsh (Editor)

Overview

This book is a collection of specially-commissioned chapters from philosophers, economists, political and behavioral economists, cognitive and organizational psychologists, computer scientists, sociologists and permutations thereof as befits the polymathic subject of this book: Herbert Simon. The tripartite of the title, Minds, Models and Milieux, connotes the three inextricably linked areas to which Herbert Simon made the most distinguished of contributions. 'Minds' connotes Simon's abiding interest in theorizing human behavior, rationality, and decision-making; 'Models' connotes his extensive computer simulation work in the service of his interest in understanding minds, but also in the service of minds that are situated in a complex social 'Milieux'.

This collection while intended to commemorate the centenary of Simon's birth simultaneously offers a timely reassessment of some of his central insights and illustrates the exponentially growing interest in Simon's work from beyond the usual disciplines and constituencies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349566808
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/25/2017
Series:	Archival Insights into the Evolution of Economics
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Roger Frantz is Professor of Economics at San Diego State University, USA. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics. His books include the co-edited Friedrich Hayek and Behavioral Economics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Renaissance in Behavioral Economics: Essays in Honor of Harvey Leibenstein (2007), Two Minds: Intuition and Analysis in the History of Economic Thought (2005), and X-Efficiency: Theory, Evidence, and Applications (1988).

Leslie Marsh is Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Medicine at The University of British Columbia, Canada. His books include Propriety and Prosperity: New Studies on the Philosophy of Adam Smith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), A Companion to Michael Oakeshott (2012), and Hayek in Mind: Hayek's Philosophical Psychology (2011). He is the prime mover behind the setting up of EPISTEME: Journal of Individual and Social Epistemology, Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization and the Michael Oakeshott Association.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Foreword by Katherine Simon Frank

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Notes on Contributors

1. Herbert Simon – a Hedgehog and a Fox; Roger Frantz and Leslie Marsh

PART I: MINDS

2. Embodied Functionalism and Inner Complexity: Simon's 21st-Century Mind; Robert Rupert

3. Towards a Rational Theory of Heuristics; Gerd Gigerenzer

4. From The Sciences of the Artificial to Cognitive History; Subrata Dasgupta

5. Rationality and the True Human Condition; Ron Sun

6. Boundedly Rational Decision-Making under Certainty and Uncertainty: Some Reflections on Herbert Simon; Mark Pingle

PART II: MODELS

7. Herbert Simon and Agent-Based Computational Economics; Shu-Heng Chen and Ying-Fang Kao

8. Simon's (Lost?) Legacy in Agent-Based Computational Economics; Marco Castellani and Marco Novarese

9. From Bounded Rationality to Expertise; Fernand Gobet

10. Multiple Equilibria, Bounded Rationality, and the Indeterminacy of Economic Outcomes: Closing the System with Institutional Parameters; Morris Altman

11. Organizational decisions in the lab: the long road from the Art to the Science of organization; Massimo Egidi

PART III: MILIEUX

12. Simon on Social Identification: Two Connections with Bounded Rationality; Rouslan Koumakhov

13. Models of Environment; Marcin Miłkowski

14. Bounded Rationality and Social Relationships in Simon's Perspective; Stefano Fiori

15. Bounded Rationalityin the Digital Age; Peter Earl

16. Herbert Simon and Some Unresolved Tensions in Professional Schools; Mie Augier and Bhavna Hariharan

Name Index

Subject Index