Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution

The late Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001), Carnegie-Mellon University, US and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1978, Massimo Egidi, LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome, Italy, Riccardo Viale, University of Milano-Bicocca and the Herbert Simon Society, Italy and the late Robin Marris, formerly Professor Emeritus, Birkbeck College, London, UK

The purpose of this book is to publish the ideas of the late Herbert Simon and sympathetic economists, on the subject of bounded rationality, economics, cognitive science and related disciplines, and to reprint some of Professor Simon’s classic papers which have appeared in journals not widely read by economists.