 | Jaime S. Sichman, Rosaria Conte, Nigel Gilbert - Computers - 1998 - 245 pages
...1) note: "Herbert Simon is fond of arguing that the social sciences are, in fact, the hard sciences. For one, many crucially important social processes...economics, demography, political science, and so forth (...)" "The social sciences are also hard because certain kinds of controlled experimentation are hard.... | |
 | Francesco Luna, Benedikt Stefansson - Business & Economics - 2000 - 336 pages
...1) note: Herbert Simon is fond of arguing that the social sciences are, in fact, the hard sciences. For one, many crucially important social processes...economics, demography, political science, and so forth (...) a way-that is, follow certain specific rules-then society as a whole will exhibit some particular... | |
 | Francesco C. Billari, Alexia Prskawetz - Social Science - 2003 - 230 pages
...Axtell say: "Herbert Simon is fond of arguing that the social sciences are, in fact, the hard sciences. For one, many crucially important social processes...complex. They are not neatly decomposable into separate subprocesses - economic, demographic, cultural, spatial whose isolated analyzes can be aggregated to... | |
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For one, many crucially important social processes are complex. They are not neatly decomposable into separate subprocesses—economic, demographic, cultural, spatial—whose isolated analyses can be aggregated to give an adequate analysis of the social... 