RRE 2001/06: [RRE]Hierarchy and History in Simon's "Archit By initiating the empirical study of organizations, Simon
discovered the living, breathing human actors who lie at their
center. He saw something profound, that human agency and relationship
are the ground of all social order, no matter how imputedly rational
that order might be, and that human agency and relationship are
reciprocally dependent on social order as well. Democracy requires
hierarchies and markets, but more fundamentally it requires active
citizens who can take up a vantage point outside those institutions,
critically evaluating them and cooperatively participating in the
processes of social choice that shape them.