biography
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Simon, Herbert A(lexander)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1916–2001)
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| biography:
| Social scientist and economist, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. A true interdisciplinarian, his work encompassed psychology and computer science as well as economics. He spent several years as a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught political science at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1942–9) before becoming a professor at Carnegie-Mellon University (1949). He focused his work on administrative behaviour and decision making in government and business. He argued that economic action is ‘bounded’ by limited knowledge, information, and resources. In addition to many other awards and distinctions, he received the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1978. |
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