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Herbert Simon

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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“The criterion of efficiency dictates that choice of alternatives which produces the largest result for the given application of resources.”
“If there were no limits to human rationality administrative theory would be barren. It would consist of the single precept: Always select that alternative, among those available, which will lead to the most complete achievement of your goals.”
“The techniques of the practitioner are usually called 'synthetic'. He designs by organizing known principles and devices into larger systems.”
“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.”
“Broadly stated, the task is to replace the global rationality of economic man with a kind of rational behavior that is compatible with the access to information and the computational capacities that are actually possessed by organisms, including man, in the kinds of environments in which such organisms exist.”
“Over Christmas, Allen Newell and I created a thinking machine.”

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Commons category: Herbert Simon
date of birth: 1916-06-15
date of death: 2001-02-09
Erdős number: 3
name in native language: Herbert A. S
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011392

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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.