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The fact that goals may be dependent for their force on other more distant ends leads to the arrangement of these goals in a hierarchy - each level to be considered as an end relative to the levels below it and as a mean to the levels above it.

— Herbert A. Simon

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The function of knowledge in the decision-making process is to determine which consequences follow upon which of the alternative strategies.

The criterion of efficiency dictates that choice of alternatives which produces the largest result for the given application of resources.

The behaviour of individuals is the tool with which the organisation achieves its targets.

Decision making processes are aimed at finding courses of action that are feasible or satisfactory in the light of multiple goals and constraints.

We need to augment and amend the existing body of classical and neoclassical economic theory to achieve a more realistic picture of economic process.

Herbert A. Simon (1986)

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