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Simon
An annotated collection of 2 books on simon, spanning 1947 to 1969. Featuring works by Herbert A. Simon — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Administrative Behavior: A Study of Decision-Making Processes in Administrative Organization
Herbert A. Simon, 1947 · Macmillan (4th edition, The Free Press, 1997)
Simon's 1947 book is one of the foundational texts of modern management theory — the argument that real organisations make decisions through bounded rationality rather than the idealised comprehensive rationality of clas…
The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert A. Simon, 1969 · MIT Press (3rd edition, 1996)
Simon's argument is that designed systems — artefacts, organisations, software, economies — require their own science, distinct from the natural sciences: a science of the artificial, concerned with the interface between…