Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
Born	Herbert Alexander Simon; June 15, 1916; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	February 9, 2001 (aged 84); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Citizenship	United States
Education	University of Chicago; (B.A., 1936; Ph.D., 1943)
Known for	Bounded rationality; Satisficing; Information Processing Language; Logic Theorist; General Problem Solver
Spouse	Dorothea Isabel Pye (m. 1939)
Children	3
Awards	Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1967); Turing Award (1975); Nobel Prize in Economics (1978); National Medal of Science (1986); Harold Pender Award (1987); von Neumann Theory Prize (1988); APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1969); ACM Fellow (1994); IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1995);
	Scientific career
Fields	Economics; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; Political science
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisor	Henry Schultz
Other academic advisors	Rudolf Carnap; Nicholas Rashevsky; Harold Lasswell; Charles Merriam; John R. Commons
Doctoral students	Edward Feigenbaum; Allen Newell; Richard Waldinger; John Muth; William F. Pounds
Influences	Richard T. Ely, John R. Commons, Henry George, Chester Barnard, Charles Merriam, Yuji Ijiri, William W. Cooper, Richard Cyert, James G. March
Influenced	Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, Gerd Gigerenzer, James March, Allen Newell, Philip E. Tetlock, Richard Thaler, John Muth, Oliver E. Williamson, Massimo Egidi, Vela Velupillai, Ha Joon Chang, William C. Wimsatt, Alok Bhargava, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Yuji Ijiri, William W. Cooper, Richard Cyert, James G. March

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001) was an American economist, political scientist and cognitive psychologist. He was best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing".^[5] He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1978 and the Turing Award in 1975.^[6]^[7]

References[change | change source]

↑ "Dorothea Simon Obituary - Pittsburgh, PA - Post-Gazette.com". Post-Gazette.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
↑ Herbert Simon, "Autobiography", in Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969–1980, Editor Assar Lindbeck, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992.
↑ Forest, Joelle, "John R. Commons and Herbert A. Simon on the Concept of Rationality", Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XXXV, 3 (2001), pp. 591–605
↑ "Herbert Alexander Simon". AI Genealogy Project. Archived from the original on 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2012-03-15.
↑ "Guru: Herbert Simon". The Economist. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
↑ "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1978". NobelPrize.org.
↑ Heyck, Hunter. "Herbert A. Simon - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". amturing.acm.org.

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[DorotheaSObit-1] "Dorothea Simon Obituary - Pittsburgh, PA - Post-Gazette.com". Post-Gazette.com. Retrieved 8 August 2015.

[nobelAutoBiog-2] Herbert Simon, "Autobiography", in Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969–1980, Editor Assar Lindbeck, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992.

[3] Forest, Joelle, "John R. Commons and Herbert A. Simon on the Concept of Rationality", Journal of Economic Issues Vol. XXXV, 3 (2001), pp. 591–605

[4] "Herbert Alexander Simon". AI Genealogy Project. Archived from the original on 2012-04-30. Retrieved 2012-03-15.

[econ-5] "Guru: Herbert Simon". The Economist. 20 March 2009. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

[6] "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1978". NobelPrize.org.

[amturing-7] Heyck, Hunter. "Herbert A. Simon - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". amturing.acm.org.

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v t e Winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
1969–1975	1969 Ragnar Frisch / Jan Tinbergen 1970 Paul Samuelson 1971 Simon Kuznets 1972 John Richard Hicks / Kenneth Arrow 1973 Wassily Leontief 1974 Gunnar Myrdal / Friedrich Hayek 1975 Leonid Kantorovich / Tjalling Koopmans
1976–2000	1976 Milton Friedman 1977 Bertil Ohlin / James Meade 1978 Herbert A. Simon 1979 Theodore Schultz / Arthur Lewis 1980 Lawrence Klein 1981 James Tobin 1982 George Stigler 1983 Gérard Debreu 1984 Richard Stone 1985 Franco Modigliani 1986 James M. Buchanan 1987 Robert Solow 1988 Maurice Allais 1989 Trygve Haavelmo 1990 Harry Markowitz / Merton Miller / William F. Sharpe 1991 Ronald Coase 1992 Gary Becker 1993 Robert Fogel / Douglass North 1994 John Harsanyi / John Forbes Nash Jr. / Reinhard Selten 1995 Robert Lucas Jr. 1996 James Mirrlees / William Vickrey 1997 Robert C. Merton / Myron Scholes 1998 Amartya Sen 1999 Robert Mundell 2000 James Heckman / Daniel McFadden
2001–present	2001 George Akerlof / Michael Spence / Joseph E. Stiglitz 2002 Daniel Kahneman / Vernon L. Smith 2003 Robert F. Engle / Clive Granger 2004 Finn E. Kydland / Edward C. Prescott 2005 Robert Aumann / Thomas Schelling 2006 Edmund Phelps 2007 Leonid Hurwicz / Eric Maskin / Roger Myerson 2008 Paul Krugman 2009 Elinor Ostrom / Oliver E. Williamson 2010 Peter A. Diamond / Dale T. Mortensen / Christopher A. Pissarides 2011 Thomas J. Sargent / Christopher A. Sims 2012 Alvin E. Roth / Lloyd S. Shapley 2013 Eugene Fama / Lars Peter Hansen / Robert J. Shiller 2014 Jean Tirole 2015 Angus Deaton 2016 Oliver Hart / Bengt Holmström 2017 Richard Thaler 2018 William Nordhaus / Paul Romer 2019 Abhijit Banerjee / Esther Duflo / Michael Kremer 2020 Paul Milgrom / Robert B. Wilson 2021 David Card / Guido Imbens / Joshua Angrist 2022 Ben Bernanke / Douglas Diamond / Philip H. Dybvig 2023 Claudia Goldin