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Daniel Kahneman

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GenresPsychologyNonfictionScienceEconomicsPersonal DevelopmentPhilosophy

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1973

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Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן‎; born 5 March 1934 - died 27 March 2024), was an Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, notable for his work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology.

With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973, Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982), and developed Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979). He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory. Currently, he is professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology.

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Timothy

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November 5, 2018

I took a crack at this because a) it's by Daniel Kahneman and b) it's free to read online. This doesn't relate to Kahneman's foundational work in behavioral economics, but it's a topic I was interested in. It's relatively technical for someone (like me) without an educational background in psychology, and I'm sure the research is dated by now. Still, it was an engaging and well-structured survey of the field.