![]() While they were both incredible Israeli scientists who eventually moved to the United States, Kahneman and Tversky both led very different lives. But it wasn’t their work or achievements that Michael Lewis wanted to focus on in this book – it was their one of a kind friendship. ![]() Kahneman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002, for the work that he and Tversky did in the psychology of judgment and decision-making, which revolutionised the way people understood economic sciences. ![]() ![]() Ideally, it would also be best to have read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman before starting on The Undoing Project, to understand why Michael Lewis decided to write a biography of Kahneman and his partner Amos Tversky. ![]() We will start with a series of books on decision making psychology and behavioural economics (the type that I love), in the following order that I recommend for better appreciation: The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, Misbehaving by Richard Thaler and Inside the Nudge Unit by David Halpern. After a 2-month hiatus, I’m back to blogging! But with many other things on my plate, I decided to keep it simple, and do some short reviews of books that I have read recently. ![]()
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