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La rationalité Simonienne est-elle satisfaisante ?

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  • Alain Boyer

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[fre] En réponse à l'intervention du Pr. Le Moigne, j'insiste à mon tour sur l'originalité et l'importance de l'approche simonienne de la décision en termes de rationalité limitée. Il ne fait aucun doute que les aspects pro- céduraux des processus cognitifs humains mis en avant par Simon et ses disciples doivent être pris en compte par toute analyse sérieuse de la décision rationnelle. . Néanmoins, il me semble que le principe même du "satisfyng", qui est au cœur de la conception simonienne, et peut-être moins... satisfaisant qu'on ne le prétend quelques fois. Je tente dans ce texte d'arguer qu'une conception de la rationalité imparfaite, fondé sur le concept popperien d"' analyse situationnelle", pourrait prendre en compte certaine des intuition simoniennes sans pour autant aller jusqu'à abandonner radicalement l'outil très utile que représente l'optimisation. [eng] In response to Pr. Le Moigne's paper, my contribution stresse the originality and importance of Simon's approch to decision making in terms of bounded rationality. There is no doubt that any interesting view of rational decision-making should take into account the procedural aspects of human cognitive processes stressed by the simonian school. Nevetheless, it is here argued, the very principle of "satifiyng", at the heart of Simon'sview, in perhaps less... satisfactary than his followers usually claim. This paper tries to argue that a doctrine of imperfect rationality, grounded in the popperian concept of "situational analysis", can cope with some of the simonian intuitions without taking the radical step of abandonning the useful instrument of optimization.

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  • Alain Boyer, 1994. "La rationalité Simonienne est-elle satisfaisante ?," Cahiers d'Économie Politique, Programme National Persée, vol. 24(1), pages 161-166.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:caecpo:cep_0154-8344_1994_num_24_1_1169
    DOI: 10.3406/cep.1994.1169
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