Herbert Simon's Nobel Award

[From Fred Nickols (960907.1015 EST)]

[Replying to Rick Marken (960906.0800)]

<< The Nobel committee has made many perculiar selections,
especially when awarding the prize to social scientists like Simon. >>

If memory isn't completely failing me, I seem to recall that Simon's
prize was for economics, a category award lots of people thought
was very "perculiar" [sic].

Fred Nickols
nickols@aol.com