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Part I Background: bounded rationality and economic evolution broadimplications for economics and management. Part II Decisions by individualsand learning: concepts of rationality as foundations of economictheory;further views on the role and concept of rationality ineconomics;rules versus discretion in decision making : micro and macroapplications;planning, learning and decisions: flexibility and retention ofoptions;certainty equivalence and bias in the management ofproduction;learning by doing and productivity progress. Part III Groupdecisions, organzations and information: group rationality and behaviour;optimal slack and efficient budgeting within organizations;informationtransmission and optimal advice for groups;transfer pricing and themanagement of multidivisional firms;game theory and groupbehaviour;symbiosis, assistance and cooperation in business. Part IV Widereconomic and social issues: values, preferences, economic choice andwelfare;concepts of economic efficency: measurement and limitations;markettransaction costs, economic welfare and management;incomplete markets forscience, technology and knowhow: problems raised by transaction costs andpolicy implications; science and technology policy, and evolutionaryeconomics; concluding observations on economic evolution, diversity andrationality.