The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Categories: Science & Math
Michael Lewis's 2016 book tells the story of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose papers in the 1970s helped create the field of behavioral economics. Lewis traces their close partnership, from their work together in Jerusalem to their research on how people make judgments under uncertainty. He shows how their ideas about the mind's systematic errors reshaped fields from medicine to government regulation, and how they informed much of his own earlier work.
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