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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis
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Description for The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: PD. Dimension: 168 x 275 x 34. Weight in Grams: 660.
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 in 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's 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 ... Read more
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 in 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's 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393254594
SKU
V9780393254594
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About Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, is the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and Flash Boys. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.
Reviews for The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Lewis has written one hell of a love story.
Jennifer Senior - New York Times Lewis is the ideal teller of [Tversky and Kahneman's] story... You see his protagonists in three dimensions-deeply likable, but also flawed, just like most of your friends and family.
David Leonhardt - New York Times Book Review Fascinating stories ... Read more
Jennifer Senior - New York Times Lewis is the ideal teller of [Tversky and Kahneman's] story... You see his protagonists in three dimensions-deeply likable, but also flawed, just like most of your friends and family.
David Leonhardt - New York Times Book Review Fascinating stories ... Read more