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The undoing project : a friendship that changed the world / Michael Lewis.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK : Allen Lane, [2016]Description: 362 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780241254738 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.82330922 23
LOC classification:
  • QP360.5 .L49 2016
Summary: From the bestselling author of 'The Big Short' and 'Flash Boys', this is the surprising and profound story of the two men whose ideas changed the world. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football. Kahneman and Tversky, shows Michael Lewis, helped shape the world in which we now live - and may well have changed, for good, humankind's view of its own mind.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 612.82 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 11/04/2024 R15211A0499

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From the bestselling author of 'The Big Short' and 'Flash Boys', this is the surprising and profound story of the two men whose ideas changed the world. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football. Kahneman and Tversky, shows Michael Lewis, helped shape the world in which we now live - and may well have changed, for good, humankind's view of its own mind.

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