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Non-Fiction · 2016 · G

The Undoing Project

by Michael Lewis

Two friends changed how we understand the human mind. This is their story.

“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, Wall Street Journal 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 Micha

ForAll agesGenreNon-FictionLength362 pagesRead time~9.5 hours

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No violence

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Sexual Content

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No sexual content

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No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Barely any

The nature of friendship and creative partnership, the grief of a bond that shifts, the ideas themselves are quietly unsettling

What this book is about

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky were Israeli psychologists who spent twenty years together mapping the systematic errors in human judgment — the cognitive biases that affect doctors, generals, economists, and everyone else. Their friendship was intense and strange, and it produced Thinking, Fast and Slow and the entire field of behavioral economics. Michael Lewis tells the story of their collaboration, their bond, and the rivalry that eventually pulled them apart. Intellectual history that reads like a thriller.

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gentle themes of aging and the end of a close friendship

suitable for all ages

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