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Bibliography of Herbert A. Simon -- 1930-1950's
1-13 Ridley, C.E., & Simon, H.A. (1937-1938). Measurement standards in city administration. Thirteen articles in Public Management, Vols. 19-20.
14 Simon, H.A. (1937). Comparative statistics and the measurement of efficiency. National Municipal Review, 26, 524-527.
15 Simon, H.A. (1937). Can municipal activities be measured? The Municipality, 32, 281-282.
16 Ridley, C.E., & Simon, H.A. (1938). MEASURING MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES. Chicago: International City Managers' Association.
17 Simon, H.A. (1938). Municipal reporting. Municipal Year Book, 47-51.
18 Simon, H.A. (1938). Inter-city contents. Municipal Year Book, 210-216.
19 Ridley, H.A., & Simon, H.A. (1938). Trends in municipal reporting. Public Opinion Quarterly, 2, 465-468.
20 Ridley, C.E., & Simon, H.A. (1938). The criterion of efficiency. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 199, 20-25.
21 Ridley, C.E., & Simon, H.A. (1938). Bibliography of measurement standards. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 199, 220-228.
22 Simon, H.A. (1938). Cities go to the polls. Public Management, 20, 362-365.
23 Simon, H.A. (1939). Municipal reporting. Municipal Year Book, 38-42.
24 Simon, H.A. (1939). The administrator in search of statistics. Public Management, 21, 106-109.
25 Ridley, C.E., & Simon, H.A. (1940). Specifications for the annual municipal report. Chicago: International City Managers' Association.
26 Ridley, C.E., & Simon, H.A. (1940). The citizen looks at his local government. Social Education, February edition.
27 Simon, H.A., Divine, W.R., Cooper, E.M., & Chernin, M. (1941). Work loads for professional staff in a public welfare agency: A summary report. Chicago: American Public Welfare Association.
28 Simon, H.A., Divine, W.R., Cooper, E.M., & Chernin, M. (1941). DETERMINING WORK LOADS FOR PROFESSIONAL STAFF IN A PUBLIC WELFARE AGENCY. Berkeley: Bureau of Public Administration, University of California.
29 Simon, H.A., Divine, W.R., Cooper, E.M., & Chernin, M. (1941). A study of administrative expenses in the state relief administration. Berkeley: Bureau of Public Administration, University of California.
30 Simon, H.A. (1941). The planning approach in public economy: Further comment. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 55, 325-330.
31 Simon, H.A. (1941). Measurement techniques in administrative research. Civic Affairs, 8(9), 1-2, 5-8.
32 Simon, H.A., Cooper, E.M., Chernin, M., & Divine, W.R. (1941). Determining work loads in relief administration. Public Management, 23, 172-175.
33 Simon, H.A., & Divine, W.R. (1941). Controlling human factors in an administrative experiment. Public Administration Review, 1, 485-492.
34 Simon, H.A. (1951). Review of the book Scientific Research: Its Administration and Organization by G.P. Bush and L.H. Hattery. Journal of Business, 24, 293.
35 Sharp, F., & Simon, H.A. (1942). What's burning in your city? Public Management, 24, 173-178.
36 Ridley, C.E., & Simon, H.A. (1943). MEASURING MUNICIPAL ACTIVITIES (2nd ed.). Chicago: International City Managers' Association.
37 Simon, H.A. (1943). FISCAL ASPECTS OF METROPOLITAN CONSOLIDATION. Berkeley: Bureau of Public Administration, University of California.
38 Simon, H.A., Shephard, R.W., & Sharp, F.W. (1943). FIRE LOSSES AND FIRE RISKS. Berkeley: Bureau of Public Administration, University of California.
39 Simon, H.A. (1943). New local sources of municipal revenues. Municipal Year Book, 254-259.
40 Simon, H.A. (1943). The incidence of a tax on urban real property. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 57, 398-420.
41 Simon, H.A. (1943). Symmetric tests of the hypothesis that the mean of one normal population exceeds that of another. Annals of Mathematical Statistics, 14, 149-154.
42 Simon, H.A. (1943). Recent progress in measuring city activities. Public Management, 25, 261-266.
43 Simon, H.A. (1944). Decision-making and administrative organization. Public Administration Review, 4, 16-31.
44 Simon, H.A. (1945). Statistical tests as a basis for "Yes-No" choices. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 40, 80-84.
45 Simon, H.A. (1945). Review of the book The Elements of Administration by L. Urwick. Public Personnel Review, 6, 121-122.
46 Simon, H.A. (1945). State-local relations in city planning. State Government, 18, 68-71.
47 Simon, H.A. (1945). Planning for organization and management. Public Management, 27, 108-111.
48 Simon, H.A. (1945). Review of the book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern. American Journal of Sociology, 50, 558-560.
49 Simon, H.A. (1945). The fine art of issuing orders. Public Management, 27, 206-208.
50 Simon, H.A. (1945). Enforcement of regulatory ordinances. Public Management, 27, 226-230.
51 Simon, H.A., & Simon, D.P. (1946). Cities in the postwar world. Municipal Year Book, 1-8.
52 Simon, H.A. (1946). The proverbs of administration. Public Administration Review, 6, 53-67.
53 Simon, H.A. (1946). How to program municipal services. Public Management, 28, 354-358.
54 Simon, H.A. (1946). What is urban redevelopment? Illinois Tech Engineer, December edition.
55 Simon, H.A. (1947). TECHNIQUE OF MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION (3rd ed.). Chicago: International City Managers' Association.
56 Simon, H.A. (1947). ADMINISTRATIVE BEHAVIOR. New York, NY: Macmillan.
57 Simon, H.A., & Simon, D.P. (1947). Trends in municipal administration. Public Management, 29, 34-35.
58 Simon, H.A. (1947). Effects of increased productivity upon the ratio of urban to rural population. Econometrica, 15, 31-42.
59 Simon, H.A. (1947). Comment on the article "The science of public administration: Three problems" by R.A. Dahl. Public Administration Review, 7, 200-203.
60 Simon, H.A. (1947). Review of the book The Evolution of the Netherlands Indies Economy by J.H. Boeke. American Journal of Sociology, 53, 69-70.
61 Simon, H.A. (1947). Atomic power: What does it mean to our peacetime economy? Illinois Tech Engineer, 13(1), 13 ff.
62 Simon, H.A. (1947). The axioms of Newtonian mechanics. The Philosophical Magazine, 38, 888-905.
63 Simon, H.A. (Ed.). (1948). LOCAL PLANNING ADMINISTRATION (Rev. ed.). Chicago: International City Managers' Association.
64 Simon, H.A. (1948). Some economic effects of technological change [Abstract]. Econometrica, 16, 199-200.
65 Simon, H.A. (1948). Review of the book The Administration State by D. Waldo. Journal of Politics, 10, 843-845.
66 Simon, H.A. (1949). Review of the book The Management of Men by R.B. Shuman. Public Personnel Review, 10, 55-56.
67 Simon, H.A. (1949). Review of the book Management: Its Nature and Significance by E.F.L. Brech. The Management Review, 38, 54.
68 Simon, H.A. (1949). Invention and cost reduction in technological change [Abstract]. Econometrica, 17, 173-174.
69 Hawkins, D., & Simon, H.A. (1949). Note: Some conditions of macroeconomic stability. Econometrica, 17, 245-248.
70 Simon, H.A., Smithburg, D.W., & Thompson, V.A. (1950). PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.
71 Simon, H.A. (1950). The effects of atomic power on national or regional economics. In S.H. Schurr and J. Marschak (Eds.), Economic aspects of atomic power (Chap. 13). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
72 Simon, H.A. (1950). Atomic power and the industrialization of backward areas. In S.H. Schurr and J. Marschak (Eds.), Economic aspects of atomic power (Chap. 14). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
73 Simon, H.A. (1950). Methodology and research in the social sciences - a bibliography. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 44 through Vol. 50.
74 Simon, H.A. (1950). Discussion of the paper "The semantics of political science" by C. Perry. American Political Science Review, 44, 407-411.
75 Simon, H.A. (1950). Modern organization theories. Advanced Management, 15, 2-4.
76 Simon, H.A. (1951). Effects of technological change in a linear model. In T. Koopmans (Ed.), Activity analysis of production and allocation (Chap. 15). New York, NY: Wiley.
77 Simon, H.A. (1951). The analysis of promotional opportunities. Personnel, 27, 282-285.
78 Simon, H.A. (1951). Discussion of theory of automata. [Based on a talk given by J. von Neumann.] Econometrica, 19, 72.
79 Simon, H.A. (1951). A formal theory of the employment relationship. Econometrica, 19(3), 293-305.
80 Simon, H.A. (1951). Review of the book Mathematical Biology of Social Behavior by N. Rashevsky. Econometrica, 19, 357-358.
81 Simon, H.A. (1952). Review of the book Bonds of Organization by E.W. Bakke. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 5, 472-474.
82 Simon, H.A. (1952). On the application of servomechanism theory in the study of production control. Econometrica, 20, 247-268.
83 Simon, H.A. (1952). A formal theory of interaction in social groups. American Sociological Review, 17, 202-211.
84 Simon, H.A. (1952). Comment on the article "Development of theory of democratic administration" by D. Waldo. American Political Science Review, 46, 494-496.
85 Simon, H.A. (1952). On the definition of the causal relation. The Journal of Philosophy, 49, 517-528.
86 Simon, H.A. (1952). Review of the book Committee Decisions with Complementary Valuation by D. Black and R.A. Newing. American Sociological Review, October, 638.
87 Simon, H.A. (1952). Comments on the theory of organizations. American Political Science Review, 46, 1130-1139.
88 Simon, H.A. (1952-1953). A comparison of organisation theories. The Review of Economic Studies, 20(1), 40-48.
88a Simon, H.A. (1953). Fundamental research in administration. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute Press.
89 Simon, H.A. (1953). Causal ordering and identifiability. In W.C. Hood and J.C. Koopmans (Eds.), Studies in econometric method (Chap. 3). New York, NY: Wiley.
89a Simon, H.A. (1953). Discussion: Decision-making and the theory of organization. Econometrica, 21, 348.
90 Simon, H.A. (1953). Birth of an organization: The economic cooperation administration. Public Administration Review, 13, 227-236.
91 Simon, H.A. (1953). Research in comparative politics [Comment]. American Political Science Review, 47, 664-666.
92 Simon, H.A. (1953). Notes on the observation and measurement of political power. Journal of Politics, 15, 500-516.
93 Simon, H.A. (1954). Insan davranisi ve teleskilat (Human behavior in organizations) (Chapter 3).
94 Smithburg, D.W., Thompson, V.A. & Simon, H.A. (1954). Administracion Publica, Superior de Administracion Publica (two volumes). Spanish translation of the book Public Administration. Central America: Costa Rica: San Jose.
95 Simon, H.A. (1954). Some strategic considerations in the construction of social science models. In P. Lazarsfeld (Ed.), Mathematical thinking in the social sciences (Chap.8). Glencoe, IL: The Free Press.
96 Simon, H.A., Kozmetsky, G., Guetzkow, H., & Tyndall, G. (1954). CENTRALIZATION VS. DECENTRALIZATION IN ORGANIZING THE CONTROLLER'S DEPARTMENT. New York, NY: The Controllership Foundation.
97 Holt, C.C., & Simon, H.A. (1954). Optimal decision rules for production and inventory control. Proceedings of the Conference on Operations Research in Production and Inventory Control, January, 73-89.
98 Simon, H.A. (1954). Staff and management controls. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 292, 95-103.
99 Simon, H.A., & Holt, C.C. (1954). The control of inventories and production rates - a survey. Journal of the Operations Research Society of America, 2, 289-301.
100 Simon, H.A. (1954). Spurious correlation: A causal interpretation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 49, 467-479.
101 Holt, C.C., & Simon, H.A. (1954). A decision rule for production and inventory control [Abstract]. Econometrica, 22, 514-515.
102 Simon, H.A. (1954). The axiomatization of classical mechanics. Philosophy of Science, 21, 340-343.
103 Simon, H.A., (1954). Bandwagon and underdog effects and the possibility of election predictions. Public Opinion Quarterly, 18, 245-253.
104 Simon, H.A. (1954). Productivity among American psychologists: An explanation. The American Psychologist, 9, 804-805.
105 Simon, H.A. (1955). Das Verwaltungshandeln. German translation of the book Administrative Behavior. H. Ridder, trans. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer Verlag.
106 Simon, H.A. (1955). Some properties of optimal linear filters. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 12, 438-440.
107 Simon, H.A., Kozmetsky, G., Guetzkow, H., & Tyndall, G. (1955). Organizing for controllership: Centralization and decentralization. The Controller, 33, 11-13.
108 Simon, H.A. (1955). Further remarks on the causal relation. [Reply to N. Rescher's review of the article "On the definition of the causal relation."] Journal of Philosophy, 52, 20-21.
109 Simon, H.A., & Guetzkow, H. (1955). A model of short- and long-run mechanisms involved in pressures toward uniformity in groups. Psychological Review, 62, 56-68.
110 Cooper, W.W., & Simon, H.A. (1955). Comment on the article "Economic expectations and plans of firms in relation to short-term forecasting" by Modigliani and Sauerlender. Studies in Income and Wealth, 17, 352-359.
111 Simon, H.A., (1955). A behavioral model of rational choice. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 69, 99-118.
112 Simon, H.A. (1955). Causality and econometrics [Comment]. Econometrica, 23, 193-195.
113 Simon, H.A. (1955). Framework of a theory of the firm [Comment]. In H.W. Bowen (Ed.), The business enterprise as a subject for research (Chapter 2). Social Science Research Council, Pamphlet #11.
114 Simon, H.A., & Stern, F. (1955). The effect of television upon voting behavior in Iowa in the 1952 presidential election. American Political Science Review, 49, 470-477.
115 Guetzkow, H., & Simon, H.A. (1955). The impact of certain nets upon organization and performance in task-oriented groups. Management Science, 1, 233-250.
116 Simon, H.A. (1954). Mathematics and the social sciences: Research Centres - the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh. [Unsigned.] International Social Sciences Bulletin, 6(4), 682-683.
117 Simon, H.A. (1950). Review of the book The Mechanisms of Economic Systems by A. Tustin. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 13, 138.
118 Simon, H.A. (1955). Prediction and hindsight as confirmatory evidence. Philosophy of Science, 22, 227-230.
119 Simon, H.A. (1955). Recent advances in organization theory. In S.K. Bailey (Ed.), Research frontiers in politics and government (Chap. 2). Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
120 Simon, H.A. (1955). Organization structure - end or means? Seminars on Administration for Public Health Service Executives (pp. 1-6). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
121 Simon, H.A. (1955). Comportement organisationel et comportement rationnel (Organizational behavior and rational behavior). Connaissance de L'Homme, 13(12), 87-98.
122 Simon, H.A. (1955). Rational behavior and organization theory. In the book Trends in economics (pp. 92-100). Conference of Pennsylvania Economists, Pennsylvania State University.
123 Simon, H.A. (1955). On a class of skew distribution functions. Biometrika, 42, 425-440.
124 Simon, H.A., & Guetzkow, H. (1955). Mechanisms involved in group pressures on deviate members. British Journal of Statistical Psychology, 8, 93-102.
125 Holt, C.C., Modigliani, F. & Simon, H.A. (1955). A linear decision rule for production and employment scheduling. Management Science, 2, 1-30.
125a Simon, H.A. (1956). Surrogates for uncertain decision problems [Reply]. Unpublished ONR Research Memorandum #38, GSIA, Carnegie Institute of Technology.
126 Simon, H.A. (1956). Dynamic programming under uncertainty with a quadratic criterion function. Econometrica, 24, 74-81.
127 Simon, H.A. (1956). Rational choice and the structure of the environment. Psychological Review, 63, 129-138.
128 Simon, H.A., & Newell, A. (1956). Models: Their uses and limitations. In L.D. White (Ed.), The state of the social sciences (pp. 66-83). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
129 Simon, H.A., Holt, C.C., & Modigliani, F. (1956). Controlling inventory and production in the face of uncertain sales. American Society for Quality Control, National Convention Transactions, Montreal, Canada.
130 Simon, H.A. (1956). A comparison of game theory and learning theory. Psychometrika, 21, 267-272.
131 Newell, A., & Simon, H.A. (1956).The logic theory machine. IRE Transactions on Information Theory, IT-2(3), 61-79.
132 Simon, H.A. (1956). Review of the book The Psychology of Economics by W.A. Weisskopf. American Sociological Review, 21, 640-641.
133 Cyert, R.M., Simon, H.A., & Trow, D.B. (1956). Observation of a business decision. Journal of Business, 29, 237-248.
134 Simon, H.A. (1957). Review of the book Information Theory in Psychology: Problems and Methods by H. Quastler (Ed.). American Journal of Sociology, 62, 441-442.
135 Simon, H.A. (1957). ADMINISTRATIVE BEHAVIOR (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Macmillan.
136 Simon, H.A. (1957). Authority. In C.M. Arensberg, (Ed.), Research in industrial human relations (Chap. 7). New York, NY: Harper and Brothers.
137 Simon, H.A. (1957). MODELS OF MAN. New York, NY: Wiley.
138 Simon, H.A. (1957). The compensation of executives. Sociometry, 20, 32-35.
139 Simon, H.A. (1957). The span of control: A reply. Advanced Management, 22(4), 14, 29.
140 Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., & Simon, H.A. (1957). Problem solving in humans and computers. Carnegie Technical, 21(4), 35-38.
141 Smithburg, D.W., Thompson, V.A., & Simon, H.A. (1956). Persian translation of the book Public Administration (Chapters 1-5). A. Mohajer, trans. Ibn Sina.
142 Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., & Simon, H.A. (1957). Empirical explorations of the logic theory machine: A case study in heuristics. Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference, Institute of Radio Engineers, 218-230.
143 Simon, H.A. (1957). Amounts of fixation and discovery in maze learning behavior. Psychometrika, 22, 261-268.
144 Simon, H.A. (1957). Background of decision making. Naval War College Review, 10, 1-23.
145 Simon, H.A., & Ando, A. (1957). Aggregation of variables in dynamic systems [Abstract]. Econometrica, 25, 602.
146 Simon, H.A. (1957). The executive's responsibility for innovation in summer program in executive development for federal administrators. University of Chicago, 4pp.
147 Anshen, M., Holt, C.C., Modigliani, F., Muth, J.F., & Simon, H.A. (1958). Mathematics for production scheduling. Harvard Business Review, 36(2), 51-58.
148 Simon, H.A. (1958). Reply to the article "The decision-making schema" (review of the book Administrative Behavior) by E. Banfield. Public Administration Review, 18, 60-63.
149 Simon, H.A. (1958). Training for research on organizations: A report of the summer institute, 1957. Items, 12, 1-3.
150 Simon, H.A. (1958). Definable terms and primitives in deductive systems in the axiomatic method: With special reference to geometry and physics. International Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley, December 1957 - January 1958, pp. 159-164.
151 Simon, H.A., & Newell, A. (1958). Heuristic problem solving: The next advance in operations research. Operations Research, 6, 1-10.
152 Dearborn, D.C., & Simon, H.A. (1958). Selective perception: A note on the departmental identification of executives. Sociometry, 21, 140-144.
153 Simon, H.A. (1958). The role of expectations in an adaptive or behavioristic model. In M.J. Bowman (Ed.), Expectations, uncertainty, and business behavior (Chap. 3). New York, NY: Social Science Research Council.
154 Simon, H.A. (1958). Review of the book Games and Decisions by R.D. Luce and H. Raiffa. American Sociological Review, 23, 342-343.
155 Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., & Simon, H.A. (1958). Elements of a theory of human problem solving. Psychological Review, 65, 151-166.
156 Simon, H.A. (1958). The administrator as decision maker. Hospital Administration, 3, 26-41.
157 Simon, H.A., & Newell, A. (1958). Reply: Heuristic problem solving. [Reply to letter to the editor written by R. Bellman.] Operations Research, 6, 449-450.
158 Simon, H.A. (1958). Reply to R. Nelson's review of the book Models of Man. American Political Science Review, 52, 502.
159 Simon, H.A. (1958). Il Comportamenta Administrativa. Italian translation of the book Administrative Behavior. Bologna: Societa Editrice Il Mulina.
160 Simon, H.A., & Bonini, C.P. (1958). The size distribution of business firms. American Economic Review, 48, 607-617.
161 Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., & Simon, H.A. (1958). Chess-playing programs and the problem of complexity. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 2, 320-335.
162 March, J.G., & Simon, H.A. (1958). ORGANIZATIONS. New York, NY: Wiley.
163 Simon, H.A. (1958). Reply: Logical positivism and ethical judgments. [Discussion of A. Koch's article "The status of values and democratic theory."] Ethics, 69, 62.
164 Simon, H.A. (1958). Models of science. [Reply to Bush's review of the book Models of Man.] Contemporary Psychology, 3, 317-318.
165 Newell, A., & Simon, H.A. (1958). Simulation of cognitive processes: A report on the summer research training institute. Items, 12, 37-40.
166 Simon, H.A., & Bonini, C.P. (1958). A dynamic model for the size distribution of business firms [Abstract]. Econometrica, 26, 611.
167 Newell, A., & Simon, H.A. (1959). Theoretical and experimental developments in automata [Abstract]. Management Science, 5, 347-348.
168 Shaw, J.C., Newell, A., Simon, H.A., & Ellis, T.O. (1959). A command structure for complex information processing. Proceedings of the Western Joint Computer Conference, American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 119-128.
169 Simon, H.A. (1959). Theories of decision-making in economics and behavioral science. American Economic Review, 49, 253-283.
170 Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., & Simon, H.A. (1960). Report on a general problem-solving program. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Processing, 256-264. [UNESCO House, Paris, France, June 13-23, 1959.]
171 Newell, A., Shaw, J.C., & Simon, H.A. (1959). Report on a general problem-solving program [Abstract]. Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, 2, 19.
172 Simon, H.A. (1959). Definable terms and primitives in axiom systems. In L. Henkin, P. Suppes, and A. Tarski (Eds.), The axiomatic method (pp. 443-453). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
173 Simon, H.A. (1959). Review of the book Elements of Mathematical Biology by A. Lotka. Econometrica, 27, 493-495.