article
A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice.
Simon, Herbert A. "A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice." Quarterly Journal of Economics 69, no. 1 (1955): 99–118.
Why this matters here
Simon's bounded-rationality model explains the limits of optimization under real constraints. The chapter uses it for the cognitive cost of exhaustive explanation, separately from Pauline Boss's account of unresolved loss.
Related books2 books
Book
After Certainty
How to Live and Judge When Understanding is not Enough
How to live and judge once explanation reaches its limits—judgment, responsibility, and participation without replacement frameworks.
View book
Book
When the Key Changes Hands
Character, Trust, and What We Cannot Predict
Character becomes visible through recurring costly choices; those patterns become evidence for trust; leadership makes character socially consequential and eventually symbolic; succession transfers authority without transferring the character that made trust reasonable.
View book