Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.
Forty years ago Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred systematically when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’ own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.
The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield – both had important careers in the Israeli military – and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed for good mankind’s view of its own mind.
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Deserving and timely homage to prominent students Scientists, especially of the social sort, rarely win the attention enjoyed by athletes and entertainers, even if scientists, particularly of the social kind, have an overweight influence on our lives, through education, therapy, consulting, and public policy. So Lewis’s homage to two prominent students of decision making is deserving. It is also timely: many of the biases they discovered are still lurking everyday, frustrating our efforts. If you are willing to learn a fair bit about…
An intellectual adventure that only Michael Lewis could do justice Thanks to works like , we know that the field of Behavioral Economics is a kind of wild west of the sciences, filled with speculation, outlaws, and not a little shenanigans. And yet it is by far the most fascinating and controversial science on the popular stage. The Undoing Project is the epic story of how it all came to be.