Inside Man The Discipline of Modeling Human Ways of Being [Hardcover]

Inside Manpresents readers with an exercise in modeling human ways of beingthinking, feeling, acting. This book does not merely introduce models, but also attempts to teach modeling and to produce, within the reader, the predispositions and attitudes of the modeler: a distance from the individual whose behavior is modeled, an engineering approach to the model-building process, a (self)-critical approach to the model testing and elaboration process, and a pedagogical and a therapeutic approach to enacting and communicating models. Author Mihnea C. Moldoveanu makes the process and the phenomenon of modeling transparent and explicit, and clarifies the reasons for which modeling human behavior has to be an interactive process between the modeler and the modeled. This perspective situatesInside Manat the intersection of analytical and computational thinking about rationality, reasoning, choice and thinking, and the tradition of action science and action research.

Mihnea C. Moldoveanu is Desautels Professor of Integrative Thinking at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, where he is also Director of the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking. He is Founder, past Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Technology Officer of Redline Communications Group, Inc. Mihnea Moldoveanu's new book,Inside Man, stands out as an intellectual tour de force. For social scientistsfrom hard-core game theorists to soft-core behavioralists and to those in-betweenwho seek to model human action, Moldoveanu's deep, systematically developed insights and practical advice should prove invaluable. By complementing the familiar descriptive, prescriptive, and normative categories,Inside Man's development of 'ascriptive' science, if heeded by practitioners, should elevate the art and science of formal modeling. Moldoveanu creates a new framework that is exciting because it questions existing ideas, and provides advice as to how to overcome existing gal“+