Herbert Simon

Herbert Alexander Simon (June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001), a Nobel laureate, was an American political scientist, economist,sociologist, psychologist, computer scientist, and Richard King Mellon 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, unified by studies of decision-making. With almost a thousand highly cited publications, he was one of the most influential social scientists of the twentieth century.
== Tossup Questions ==
# In a 1971 article "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World," this social scientists argues that the proliferation of information produces scarcity in whatever it requires to consume that information, thus introducing the notion of the "attention economy." He along with Allen Newell designed a program that would eventually prove 38 of 52 axioms located in Chapter 2 of Principia Mathematica called the "Logic Theorist." In one work he argues that "authority" is the chief mode of influence that distinguishes individual participation in organizations. His significant association with the Cowles Commission was integral in his mathematical development of Decision-making in organizations laid out in such works as Public Administration.
# This thinker applied a mathematical model for electrical control systems to the analysis of production in his paper "On the Application of Servomechanism Theory in the Study of Production Control."He's not Wassily Leontief, but along with David Hawkins, he names a condition for guaranteeing that an input-output matrix has a unique, positive solution. His essays on human behavior are collected in Models of Man, and along with Allen Newell, he developed the Logic Theorist and the General Problem Solver. He analyzed decision making in his work Administrative Behavior, and argued that agents work towards a limited aspiration level rather than attempting to maximize their happiness. For 10 points, name this economist and polymath who coined the terms "bounded rationality" and "satisficing."