Data di nascita: 15. Giugno 1916
Data di morte: 9. Febbraio 2001
Herbert Alexander Simon è stato un economista, psicologo e informatico statunitense.
Le sue ricerche spaziano nei campi della psicologia cognitiva, dell'informatica, dell'economia, del management e della filosofia della scienza. Con circa un migliaio di pubblicazioni, molte citatissime, è uno dei più importanti scienziati sociali del XX secolo.
Simon, Herbert A. "The proverbs of administration." Public Administration Review 6.1 (1946): 53-67.
1940s-1950s
Contesto: Most of the propositions that make up the body of administrative theory today share, unfortunately, this defect of proverbs. For almost every principle one can find an equally plausible and acceptable contradictory principle.
Origine: 1960s-1970s, The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969, p. 53.
Simon, H. A. (1971) "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World" in: Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, Baltimore. MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 40–41.
1960s-1970s
Contesto: In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Public administration, 1950, p. 75
Simon (1975, p. ix); As cited in Stefano Franchi(2006) " Herbert simon, anti-philosopher http://cleinias.org/sites/default/files/Simon-anti-Philosopher-preprint.pdf." Computing and Philosophy. p. 34.
1960s-1970s
Origine: 1960s-1970s, "Rational decision making in business organizations", Nobel Memorial Lecture 1978, p. 498; As cited in: Arjang A. Assad, Saul I. Gass (2011) Profiles in Operations Research: Pioneers and Innovators. p. 260-1.
Simon (1990) "Invariants of Human Behavior" in: Annu. Rev. Psychol. 41: p. 6.
1980s and later
Herbert A. Simon (1986) in Preface to: Gilad & Kaish (eds.), Handbook of Behavioral Economics, p. xvi.
1980s and later
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 24.
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947
Simon (1945, p. 353); As cited in: Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences (2009) p. 425.
1940s-1950s
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 100.
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 62.
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 84.
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
Variante: The principle of bounded rationality [is] the capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solution is required for objectively rational behavior in the real world — or even for a reasonable approximation to such objective rationality.
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 198.
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 43.
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 252; As cited in: Herbert Simon (1996) The Sciences of the Artificial. page xii.
Origine: 1980s and later, "Why a diagram is (sometimes) worth ten thousand words," (1987), p. 65
— Herbert A. Simon, libro Administrative Behavior
Origine: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 62.
