Models of bounded rationality / Herbert A. Simon.

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VOLUMEN 1 -- Acknowledgments, xi -- Introduction, xv -- I. Some questions of public choice, 1 -- 1.1. Comparative statistics and the measurement of efficiency, 9 -- 1.2. Work Loads for professional staff in a public welfare agency: a summary report, 14 -- 1.3. Fiscal aspects of metropolitan consolidation, 25 -- 1.4. The incidence of a tax on urban real property, 49 -- 1.5. Residential choice and air pollution: a general equilibrium model: appendix, 72 -- 1.6. The planning approach in public economy: further comment, 74 -- 1.7. Appendix: economics of milk production and distribution in Pennsylvania, 80 -- 1.8. Air quality and automobile emission control: summary statement, 99 -- II. Rational choice under uncertainty, 111 -- 2.1. On the application of servomechanism theory in the study of production control, 115 -- 2.2. Optimal decision rules for production and inventory control, 137 -- 2.3. The control of inventories and production rates – a survey, 181 -- 2.4. Some properties of optimal linear filters, 194 -- 2.5. A linear decision rule for production and employment scheduling, 197 -- 2.6. Dynamic programming under uncertainty with a quadratic criterion function, 227 -- 2.7. Reply: surrogates for uncertain decision problems, 235 -- 2.8. Optimal problem-solving search: all-or-none solutions, 248 -- III. Technological change, 261 -- 3.1. Effects of Increased Productivity Upon the Ratio of Urban to Rural Population, 269 -- 3.2. Some economic effects of technological change, 281 -- 3.3. Effects of technological change in a linear model, 307 -- 3.4. The effects of atomic power on national or regional economies, 325 -- 3.5. Atomic power and the industrialization of backward areas, 354 -- 3.6. Heuristic problem solving: the next advance in operations research, 380 -- 3.7. Technology and environment, 390 -- IV. Structure of economic systems, 403 -- 4.1. Note: some conditions of macroeconomic stability, 407 -- 4.2. Aggregation of variables in dynamic systems, 411 -- 4.3. A note on the Cobb-Douglas function, 442 -- 4.4 On parsimonious explanations of production relations, 444 -- 4.5. Bandwagon and underdog effects and the possibility of election predictions, 460 -- Index, 469.