One must attend to complex cultural and historical fields of knowledge and generate, for example, new ways of thinking about mass incarceration such as
Simon's theory of total incapacitation and his intriguing conception of the possibilities of change occurring amid a cascade of new recognitions of mass incarceration as an assault on basic human dignity.
Herbert
Simon's theory of bounded rationality and administrative behavior revolutionized decision science and laid the foundation of descriptive decision theory in contrast with the traditional prescriptive or normative school.
A BRIEF CRITIQUE OF WILLIAM SIMON'S THEORY OF LEGAL AND ACADEMIC
Critiquing Simon's Theory of Academics' Law Practice
Simon's theory is appealing because it promises to hold lawyers to
This Reply explores Simon's theory and his implementation of
A main idea of these early works was
Simon's theory of "bounded rationality," that human and organizational decision-making is significantly limited by both weaknesses in intelligence and a lack of sufficient information.
Mutatis mutandis, Chase and
Simon's theory can be, and has been, applied to other domains of expertise.
Ashby's cybernetic concepts, Herbert
Simon's theory of "bounded rationality,' and Oliver Williamson's treatments of "markets and hierarchies.' These ideas however, are not tightly woven into an enhanced, comprehensive model of information management.
This summary sounds like an assault on Simon's theory, but I do not mean it to be.
In the phone bill example, Simon's theory fails the agent-relativity condition.
In this way, Simon's theory simultaneously makes the lawyer's ethical task more challenging, and diminishes the resources lawyers have available to meet the challenge.