Table of Contents

Part 1 The structure of complex systems: Causal ordering - causality in economic models; causal ordering, comparative statics, and near decomposability, ( with Y. Iwasaki); causality and model abstraction, (with Y. Iwasaki); simulating large systems - simulation of large-scale systems by aggregation; prediction and prescription in systems modelling. Part 2 The advance of information technology: the rural-urban population balance again; the impact of electronic communications on organizations; the steam engine and the computer - what makes technology revolutionary; managing in an information-rich world; on the alienation of workers and management. Part 3 Motivation and the theory of the firm: a mechanism for social selection and successful altruism; organizations and markets; altruism and economics - a summary statement; altruism and economics - social implications. Part 4 Behaviourial economics and bounded rationality: behaviourial economics - preface to "Handbook of behaviourial economics"; behaviourial economics; bounded rationality; satisfying; empirical methods in economics - behaviourial research - theory and public policy; methodological foundations of economics; preface to "La theorie moderne de l'enterprise - l'approche institutionelle; initial and boundary conditions in economic theory - on the behaviourial and rational foundations of economic dynamics; rationality in psychology and economics; the state of economic science - the failure of armchair economics; why economists disagree; the state of economic science; economic reasoning in words and pictures - effect of mode of data presentation on reasoning about economic markets (with H.J.M. Tabachneck).

About the Author

Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) was an influential psychologist and political scientist, awarded the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics and the 1975 Turing Award (with Allen Newell). His many published books include Models of Bounded Rationality and Models of My Life (both published by the MIT Press)..