Pocket calculator
- ID-nummer
- 2004.001.008:a
- Titel
- Pocket calculator
- Objektkategori
- Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller
- Publik beskrivning
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A pocket calculator can be associated an analytical and deeply reasoning mind. Herbert Simon, who used this calculator for many years, had that, but was very versatile and also partly had a different view of man. In Simon's day, established economic theories were based on the notion that all businesses and entrepreneurs acted in a strictly rational manner, with their own profit maximization as their only goal. Simon believed that people's choices diverge from the strictly rational, and he described businesses as adaptable systems with physical, personal, and social elements. Adopting this viewpoint, he was able to describe modern society's decision-making processes from a completely different perspective.
The calculator was donated to the Nobel Prize Museum by Herbert Simon’s family in 2003. - Pristagare
- Herbert Simon
- Provenance
- 348 Nobel Museum Temporary
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