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## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 17 — a017

# Herbert Simon

**Profile.** Nobel laureate economist and cognitive scientist; introduced 'bounded rationality' and produced foundational work on organizations and decision-making ('Administrative Behavior'). Canonical reference: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/simon/

**Role in this source.** A cited theorist supplying one of the two intellectual pillars of the article's hierarchy argument (not an author or participant).

**Attributed contribution.** [[concept-bounded-rationality-hierarchy|Bounded rationality as the origin of corporate hierarchy]], feeding [[claim-agents-collapse-hierarchy]].