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    Bounded rationality can be understood as optimization under constraints

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    • 1.Optimization methods, dominance reasoning, and logical consistency are bedrock normative principles
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    • 2.Approaches committed to these principles interpret bounded rationality as constrained optimization rather than a departure from rationality
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    • 1.Simon's original bounded rationality thesis holds that satisficing replaces optimization, not merely constrains it.
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    • 2.Reframing satisficing as 'optimization under constraints' smuggles in the very utility-maximization framework Simon sought to displace.
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    • 3.A framework that reabsorbs its own critique by redefinition cannot count as a genuine theoretical alternative to classical rationality.
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    • 1.Gigerenzer's ecological rationality program demonstrates that fast-and-frugal heuristics outperform optimization models in real-world uncertainty.
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    • 2.If heuristics succeed precisely by ignoring available information rather than processing it under constraint, the optimization framework mischaracterizes the mechanism of bounded rationality.
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    Implicit in Aumann’s first four arguments is the notion that global rationality (section 2) is a reasonable normative standard but problematic for descriptive theories of human judgment and decision-making (section 8). Even the literature standing behind Aumann’s fifth argument, namely that there are problems with expected utility theory as a normative standard, nevertheless typically address those shortcomings through modifications to, or extensions of, the underlying mathematical theory (
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