Herbert Simon

Prize Lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 8, 1978

Rational Decision-Making in Business Organizations

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From Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969-1980, Editor Assar Lindbeck, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992

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