Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems

Baruch Fischhoff is Howard Heinz University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been since 1987. He has also held positions at Decision Research (Eugene, Oregon) and the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit (Cambridge). He is an elected member of the (US) National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine, and he has been an advisor to many governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Bounded Disciplines and Unbounded Problems cements BaruchFischhoff's legacy as a public intellectual. For 40 years he has walked the talk by immersing himself in the practical application of decision science to pressing societal concerns. Simultaneously, he has talked the walk through groundbreaking research and communication efforts, culminating in the 2023Clarendon Lectures. In this volume he has written the book on how to confront the wicked problems of our time. It belongs on the shelf of every organizational scholar interested in the nexus of science, policy, and societal well-being.

• 1: Bounding Complexity: The Wisdom of Conscious Blinders 2: Sciences (in)Action: A Success and a Failure in Confronting Complexity 3: Decision Science: Boundedly Rational Study of Rationality 4: Questions of Competence: Disciplined Empathy 5: Slow Science (Beliefs) 6: Slow Science (Preferences) 7: A Strategy for Bonding Bounded Disciplines 8: A Vision for Management Science 9: Change (in)Action 10: Management Science as a Bonding Discipline