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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Herbert Simon, Robert K. Merton, Henry P. Caulfield, Jr., Lynton K. Caldwell, Jerry Climer, H. George Frederickson, Aaron Wildavsky, Phillip O. Foss, Mary Parker Follett, Robert A. Dahl, Luther Gulick, Graham T. Allison, James Q. Wilson, Frank Johnson Goodnow, Richard Neustadt, Norma M. Riccucci, Philip Selznick, Dwight Waldo, Richard Cyert, Helmut Anheier, Johan Olsen, S. N. Sadasivan, Jack Rabin, Morris H. DeGroot, Xavier Musca, William F. Willoughby, Frederick C. Mosher, Camilla Stivers, Leonard D. White, Gary Wamsley, Ralph Hummel, Paul H. Appleby, William A. Niskanen, Norton E. Long, Allen Schick, Charles Goodsell, John Rohr, Paul P. Van Riper. Excerpt: Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 - February 9, 2001) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor-most notably at Carnegie Mellon University-whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science. With almost a thousand very highly cited publications, he is one of the most influential social scientists of the 20th century. Simon was among the founding fathers of several of today's important scientific domains, including artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, attention economics, organization theory, complex systems, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. He coined the terms bounded rationality and satisficing, and was the first to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. He also received many top-level honors later in life. These include: the ACM's Turing Award for making "basic contributions to artificial intelligence, the ps...
