Tversky and Kahneman. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Book by Michael Lewis

"Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors- Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. ...Google Books

Originally published: December 6, 2016

Author: Michael Lewis

‘The Undoing Project,’ focuses on the lifelong collaboration of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, two Israeli-American psychologists who are our age’s apostles of doubt about human reason.

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Barack Obama hired Cass Sunstein, a scholar heavily influenced by them, to design behavioural "nudges" that encourage people to do the right thing without forcing them

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