Herbert A. Simon - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• 1938 (with Clarence E. Ridley). Measuring Municipal Activities: a Survey of Suggested Criteria and Reporting Forms For Appraising Administration.
• 1943. Fiscal Aspects of Metropolitan Consolidation.
• 1945. The Technique of Municipal Administration, 2d ed.
• 1947. Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization.

– 4th ed. in 1997, The Free Press

• 1955. "A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice", Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 69, 99–188.
• 1956. "Reply: Surrogates for Uncertain Decision Problems", Office of Naval Research, January 1956.

– Reprinted in 1982, In: H.A. Simon, Models of Bounded Rationality, Volume 1, Economic Analysis and Public Policy, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 235–44.

• 1957. Models of Man. John Wiley. Presents mathematical models of human behaviour.
• 1958 (with James G. March and the collaboration of Harold Guetzkow). Organizations. New York: Wiley.
• 1958 (with Allen Newell and J. C. Shaw). "Elements of a theory of human problem solving", Psychological Review, vol. 65, 151-166.
• 1967. "Motivational and emotional controls of cognition", Psychological Review, vol. 74, 29–39, reprinted in Models of Thought Vol 1.
• 1969. The Sciences of the Artificial. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1st edition
• 1972 (with Allen Newell). Human Problem Solving.
• 1972. "Theories of Bounded Rationality," Chapter 8 in C. B. McGuire and R. Radner, eds., Decision and Organization, Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company.
• 1977. Models of Discovery : and other topics in the methods of science. Dordrecht, Holland: Reidel.
• 1979. Models of Thought, Vols. 1 and 2. Yale University Press. His papers on human information-processing and problem-solving.
• 1980 (with K. Anders Ericsson). "Verbal reports as data", Psychological Review, vol. 87, 215-251.
• 1982. Models of Bounded Rationality, Vols. 1 and 2. MIT Press. His papers on economics.
• 1983. Reason in Human Affairs, Stanford University Press. A readable 115pp. book on human decision-making and information processing, based on lectures he gave at Stanford in 1982. A popular presentation of his technical work.
• 1987 (with P. Langley, G. Bradshaw, and J. Zytkow). Scientific Discovery: computational explorations of the creative processes. MIT Press.
• 1991. Models of My Life. Basic Books, Sloan Foundation Series. His autobiography.
• 1995 (with Peter C.-H. Cheng). "Scientific discovery and creative reasoning with diagrams", in S. M. Smith, T. B. Ward & R. A. Finke (Eds.), The Creative Cognition Approach (pp. 205–228). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• 1996. The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd ed. MIT Press.
• 1997. An Empirically Based Microeconomics. Cambridge University Press. A compact and readable summary of his criticisms of conventional "axiomatic" microeconomics, based on a lecture series.
• 1997. Models of Bounded Rationality, Vol. 3. MIT Press. His papers on economics since the publication of Vols. 1 and 2 in 1982. The papers grouped under the category "The Structure of Complex Systems"– dealing with issues such as causal ordering, decomposability, aggregation of variables, model abstraction– are of general interest in systems modelling, not just in economics.
• 1998 (with John R. Anderson, Lynne M. Reder, K. Anders Ericsson, and Robert Glaser). "Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology", Brookings Papers on Education Policy, no. 1, 227–278.
• 2000 (with John R. Anderson and Lynne M. Reder). "Applications and misapplications of cognitive psychology to mathematics education", Texas Education Review, vol. 1, no. 2, 29–49.