Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution

Abstract

Part 1 Bounded rationality: discussion introductory comment colloquium with H.A. Simon. Part 2 Herbert Simon reprints: rational choice and the structure of the environment (1956) thinking by comuters (1966) information processing in computers and man (1964) scientific discovery as problem solving (1988). Part 3 New papers: subejective rationality and the explanation of social behaviour, Raymond Boudon organizational learning, problem solving and the division of labour, Massimo Egidi cognitive constraints of economic rationality, Ricardo Viale implications for economics, Robin Marris.