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Herbert Simon

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Herbert Simon

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Also known as Herbert A. Simon, Herbert Alexander Simon

American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist (1916–2001)

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Herbert Simon was an American scholar who made major contributions across multiple fields including economics, psychology, political science, and sociology during the 20th century. His work fundamentally changed how people understand decision-making by showing that humans don't always make perfectly rational choices, a insight that influenced everything from how organizations operate to how economists model human behavior.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1978

    “for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations”

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Instance of
human
Given name
Alexander
Family name
Simon
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Milwaukee
Place of death
Pittsburgh
Occupation
political scientist
Educated at
University of Chicago
Employer
Illinois Institute of Technology
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Award
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Notable work
bounded rationality
Participant in
Dartmouth workshop
Doctoral advisor
Harold Lasswell
Student of
Harold Lasswell
Field of work
political science
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Herbert Simon, RIT NandE Vol13Num11 1981 Mar19 Complete.jpg
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Herbert Simon
date of birth
1916-06-15
date of death
2001-02-09
member of
Econometric Society
Erdős number
3
name in native language
Herbert A. S
ACM Classification Code (2012)
10011392
archives at
Carnegie Mellon University
influenced by
Richard T. Ely
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
economics
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Encyclopedic overview

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American scholar whose work influenced the fields of computer science, economics, and cognitive psychology. His primary research interest was decision-making within organizations and he is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He and Allen Newell received the ACM Turing Award in 1975, and he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1978.

His research was noted for its interdisciplinary nature, spanning the fields of cognitive science, computer science, public administration, management, and political science. He was at Carnegie Mellon University for most of his career, from 1949 to 2001, where he helped found the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, one of the first such departments in the world.

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