The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

By:

Michael Lewis

Language: English Publication details: W. W. Norton & CompanyEdition: 1 edition (October 31, 2017)Description: 368 pagesISBN:

9780393354775

DDC classification:

612.8/LEW/2017

Summary: “Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason.” ―William Easterly, Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, Kahneman and Tversky’s extraordinary friendship incited a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. In The Undoing Project, Lewis shows how their Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Books	KM Library	Non-fiction	612.8/LEW/2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		KM18090122
Books	KM Library	Non-fiction	612.8/LEW/2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	6767	KM18090123
Books	KM Library	Non-fiction	612.8/LEW/2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	6767	KM18090124

“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason.” ―William Easterly,

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, Kahneman and Tversky’s extraordinary friendship incited a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. In The Undoing Project, Lewis shows how their Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

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