Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon

Edited by Gerd Gigerenzer, Herbert Simon Society; Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, Shabnam Mousavi, Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENTAI), Turin, Italy and Riccardo Viale, Herbert Simon Society, BIB-Behavioral Insights Bicocca of University of Milan Bicocca and School of Government, LUISS, Rome, Italy

‘This edited volume is a tribute to Herbert Simon’s profound impact across disciplines such as behavioural economics, artificial intelligence, administrative behaviour, cognitive science, and entrepreneurship. The chapter authors reflect on their work through a “Simonian” lens, highlighting how his principles and personal interactions with him shaped their thinking and research.’

• Contents:Introduction: Simon says 1Gerd Gigerenzer, Shabnam Mousavi and Riccardo Viale1 Herbert Simon: a daughter’s view 5Katherine Simon FrankPART I ARE MINDS LIKE COMPUTERS?2 Herbert Simon on mind as computer 15Gerd Gigerenzer and Daniel G. Goldstein3 Symbols and search in humans and machines 33Pat LangleyPART II WHAT MAKES ADMINISTRATORS AND ENTREPRENEURS?4 Beggars and horseless: entrepreneurial origins of organizationsand markets 57Saras Sarasvathy5 Reflections on descriptive and prescriptive issues inAdministrative Behavior, the work for which Herbert Simonreceived the 1978 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics 78Hersh Shefrin6 Simon and Knight 98J.-C. SpenderPART III WHAT IS BOUNDED RATIONALITY?7 A double-edged metaphor: Simon and the scissors of boundedrationality 130Enrico Petracca8 From bounded rationality to ecological rationality 148Gerd Gigerenzer9 Intelligence versus rationality: Simon’s dueling reference points 176Jonathan BendorPART IV SOLVING PROBLEMS10 Enactive problem solving: an alternative to the limits ofdecision making 197Riccardo Viale11 Problem solving, bounded rationality and the enigma of thought 227Laura Macchi and Maria BagassiPART V ORGANIZATIONS, HEURISTICS, AND LIFE LESSONS12 Study of organization without strategy: structural rationality 249Shabnam Mousavi and Shyam Sunder13 Representations, frames and the dynamics of routines:rethinking routines as artifacts 277Massimo Egidi, Luigi Marengo and Giacomo Sillari14 Heuristics for metascience: Simon and Popper 299Konstantinos V. Katsikopoulos, Julian N. Marewski and Ulrich HoffragePART VI FINALE: SIMON SAID15 Simon said: Herb’s research rules and life lessons 313Robert Axtell