The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

Name: The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
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THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS

‘A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think … What a story it is’ Sunday Times
‘You’ll love it … full of surprises and no small degree of tragedy’ Tim Harford

In 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They were different in every way. But they were both obsessed with the human mind – and both happened to be geniuses. Together, they would change the way we see the world.

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.

‘An enchanted collaboration … During the final pages, I was blinking back tears’ The New York Times

‘My favourite writer full stop. Engages both heart and brain like no other’ Daily Telegraph

‘Brilliant, a wonderful book, a masterclass’ Spectator

‘Psychology’s Lennon and McCartney … Lewis is exactly the storyteller they deserve’ Observer

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Bestselling 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’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.