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Simon and Knight

In: Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon

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  • J.-C. Spender

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Herbert Simon entered the University of Chicago undergraduate program in 1933 intending to study economics. Frank Knight was head of the economics department. Although Knight greatly influenced pre-World War II economics, the links, if any, between Knight’s signature uncertainty and Simon’s equally signature bounded rationality have yet to be clarified. Simon claimed his ideas grew from a distinction between fact and value about which Knight wrote extensively, though as far as we know the two never interacted directly. But from his PhD oral exam onwards, Simon met pushback from those who adopted a Knightian rather than a Simonian view of the fact/value distinction and its implications. This chapter explores boundaries to Simon’s views as revealed in the related intellectual battles he fought over the course of his extraordinarily wide-ranging - and combative - career.

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  • J.-C. Spender, 2024. "Simon and Knight," Chapters, in: Gerd Gigerenzer & Shabnam Mousavi & Riccardo Viale (ed.), Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon, chapter 6, pages 99-128, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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