What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering work on decision-making processes in economic organizations." The ability to apply reason to the choice of actions is supposed to be one of the defining characteristics of our species. In the first two chapters, the author explores the nature and limits of human reason, comparing and evaluating the major theoretical ...
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What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering work on decision-making processes in economic organizations." The ability to apply reason to the choice of actions is supposed to be one of the defining characteristics of our species. In the first two chapters, the author explores the nature and limits of human reason, comparing and evaluating the major theoretical frameworks that have been erected to explain reasoning processes. He also discusses the interaction of thinking and emotion in the choice of our actions. In the third and final chapter, the author applies the theory of bounded rationality to social institutions and human behavior, and points out the problems created by limited attention span human inability to deal with more than one difficult problem at a time. He concludes that we must recognize the limitations on our capabilities for rational choice and pursue goals that, in their tentativeness and flexibility, are compatible with those limits.
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Fair in Very good+ jacket. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild shelfwear to bottom edges of boards, binding tight, text has red ink underlining and marginalia throughout. DJ has mild sun to spine, previous seller's sticker to rear panel. Reading/study copy only!
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Not ex-lib. Hardcover in blue cloth, in blue card jacket, 8vo. Presumed 1st edition/printing with no other printings indicated. viii + 115pp. Index. NF/NF. Book has non-authorial inscription in fine hand lower half-title page; fairly strong foxing to page edges; else clean, sharp, square and unmarked. Jacket has mild sunning to spine with no effect on titles, mild rubbing along mid rear fore edge; else clean and strongly colored. Jacket in Brodart.
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Very good in Good jacket. Ex-library. Stamp on inside jacket flap and front end paper. Dark stain on book edge. Small tear on front of jacket. Sun fading on spine and spine-side parts of jacket. Inside pages are free of marks.
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