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Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Essays that pay tribute to the wide-ranging influence of the late Herbert Simon, by friends and colleagues.Herbert Simon (1916-2001), in the course of a long and distinguished career in the social and behavioral sciences, made lasting contributions to many disciplines, including economics, psychology, computer science, and artificial intelligence. In 1978 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his research into the decision-making process within economic organizations. His well-known book The Sciences of the Artificial addresses the implications of the decision-making and problem-solving processes for the social sciences.This book (the title is a variation on the title of Simon's autobiography, Models of My Life) is a collection of short essays, all original, by colleagues from many fields who felt Simon's influence and mourn his loss. Mixing reminiscence and analysis, the book represents a small acknowledgment of a large debt.Each of the more than forty contributors was asked to write about the one work by Simon that he or she had found most influential. The editors then grouped the essays into four sections: Modeling Man, Organizations and Administration, Modeling Systems, and Minds and Machines. The contributors include such prominent figures as Kenneth Arrow, William Baumol, William Cooper, Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Kahneman, David Klahr, Franco Modigliani, Paul Samuelson, and Vernon Smith. Although they consider topics as disparate as Is Bounded Rationality Unboundedly Rational? and Personal Recollections from 15 Years of Monthly Meetings, each essay is a testament to the legacy of Herbert Simon--to see the unity rather than the divergences among disciplines. …

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 592 pages. 9.00x7.00x1.31 inches. In Stock.

very good dust-jacket, attractive copy, very good gray cloth, rear top corner has slightest ding. thick red remainder stripe on bottom foredge, previous owner's name on front endpaper in ink. AUGIER, MIE / MARCH, JAMES G., ed. . Models of a man. Essays in memory of Herbert A. Simon. Edited by Mie Augier and James G. March. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004, 1st printing number line ending in 1, xiv, 553pp., . CONTRIBUTORS: Mie Augier, James G. March, Katherine Simon Frank, Kenneth J. Arrow, William J. Baumol, William W. Cooper, Richard H. Day, Yuji Ijiri, David M. Kreps, Roy Radner, Paul A. Samuelson, Reinhard Selten, Vernon L. Smith and Ferenc Szidarovszky, Philip Bromiley, John Conlisk, William R. Dill, Diovanni Dosi, Julian Feldman, Robert E. Goodin, Harold Guetzkow, Brian J. Loasby, Oliver E. Williamson, Sidney G. Winter, Albert Ando, Peter E. Earl and Jason Potts, Massimo Egidi and Luigi Marengo, Axel Leijonhufvud, Charles C. Holt, Michael C. Lovell, Franco Modigliani, John F. Muth, Edward A. Feigenbaum, Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Kahneman and Shane Frederick, David Klahr, Kenneth Kotosky, Pat Langley, Pamela Mccorduck, George Miller, Joseph C. Pitt, Shyam Sunder, Raul E. Valdes-Perez. 9780262012089 ISBN 0262012081.…

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