The Undoing Project

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Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics One of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, Kahneman and Tversky s extraordinary friendship incited a revolution in 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 In The Undoing Project, Lewis shows how their Nobel Prize winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. New Download eBook The Undoing Project By Michael Lewis – kino-fada.fr This nonfiction is unlike others Michael Lewis has offered us In this he tries the trick of explaining confusion by demonstrating confusion, but near the end of this work we appreciate again Lewis distinctive clarity and well developed sense of irony as he addresses a very consequential collaboration in the history of ideas Lewis did something else he d not done before as well By the end of this book I was bawling aloud, in total sync with what Lewis was trying to convey why humans do what This nonfiction is unlike others Michael Lewis has offered us In this he tries the trick of explaining confusi...Being a baseball lover, one of my favorite books is Michael Lewis Moneyball where he follows the low budget 2002 Oakland A s during their remarkable, division winning season I found this book informative while also exploring the business of baseball What made this book special is that Lewis made baseball interesting for people who are not usual fans of the sport Lately I kept seeing reviews of Lewis new book The Undoing Project appear on my Goodreads feed While economics usually bores me, Being a baseball lover, one of my favorite books is Michael Lewis Moneyball where he follows the low budget 2002 Oakland A s during their remarkable, division winning season I found this book informative while also exploring th... Originally reviewed in January, 2017After reading about this book, I pre ordered it, six months before its release date It s about the work of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who published Thinking, Fast and Slow in 2011 and his late collaborator, Amos Tversky Thinking, Fast and Slow had a big impact on me Moreover, The Undoing Project s author is Michael Lewis, of Moneyball and The Big Short fame That s about all I knew of him Around the book s release date there was a flurry of publicit Originally reviewed in January, 2017After reading about this book, I pre ordered it, six months before its release date It s about the work of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who published Thinking, Fast and Slow in 2011 and his late collaborator, Amos Tversky Thinking, Fast and Slow had a big impact on me Moreover, The Undoing Project s author is Michael Lewis, of Moneyball and The Big Short fame That s about all I knew of him Around the book s release date there was a flurry of publicity interviews I watched several, including the long one with Charlie Rose Michael Lewis could hold his own and articulate his subjects w...This is a great story about two genius psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky They did groundbreaking research that led to improved understanding of how we make decisions Although their personalities were total opposites, they found themselves enthralled with one another, and collaborated closely for fifteen years Kahneman grew up in France just before and during World War II His father helped his family narrowly escape from the grips of the Nazis over and over again After the war, This is a great story about two genius psychologists, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky They did groundbreaking research that led to improved understanding of how we make decisions Although their personalities were total opposites, they found themselves enthralled with one another, and collaborated closely for fifteen years Kahneman grew up in France just before and during World War II His father helped his family narrowly escape from the grips of the Nazis over and over again After the war, he moved to Israel, where he enrolled in the psychology department at Hebrew University He found that there were no highly qualified professors, so he really taught himself Then he joined the Israeli army, where his psychology training ...I will be bold, and confidently tell you what this book is all aboutHumans making decisions are inherently handicapped by systematic biases that make them think they are being logical, but often, or possibly usually, are not And Mankind longs for certainty but we live in an inherently uncertain word Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic UniverseKindle Locations 2619 2620.There, no need to read anyor my review.BUT, I do ramble on, so here goes The two psychologis I will be bold, and confidently tell you what this book is all aboutHumans making decisions are inherently handicapped by systematic biases that make them think they are being logical, but o...Amos Tversky and David Kahneman are psychologists who met in Israel in the 1960 s Though very different in personality, they became very close friends and went on to collaborate in producing a number of papers concerning what came to be known as behavioural economics or in layman s terms, the psychology of judgement and decision making In essence, they argued that departures in human rational thought can be predicted and its impacts calculated To demonstrate this, they concocted numerous sc Amos Tversky and David Kahneman are psychologists who met in Israel in the 1960 s Though very different in personality, they became very close friends and went on to collaborate in producing a number of papers concerning what came to be known as behavioural economics or in layman s terms, the psychology of judgement and decision making In essence, they arg...It is a testament to Michael Lewis writing that chunks of the psychological research featured in this book were beyond my comprehension, and yet I still enjoyed reading it.First of all, I feel somewhat guilty about the rating Some parts of the book I liked very much Michael Lewis writes well but I believe he has fallen short here Lewis is best at setting up an underdog who beats the system in sports, the financial markets, etc He has attempted the same here about Tversky and Kahneman But reading about academics who challenge conventional wisdom in the field of psychology is less interesting than financial traders who short the mortgage market, or adopt First of all, I feel somewhat guilty about the rating Some parts of the book I liked very much Michael Lewis writes well but I believe he has fallen short here Lewis is best at setting up an underdog who beats the system in sports, the financial markets, etc He has attempted the same here about Tversky and Kahneman But reading about academics who challenge conventional wisdom in the field of psychology is less interesting than financial traders who short the mortgage market, or adoptive parents who help their talented son beat the odds and get drafted to the NFL, or who compile a winning sports team through metrics.The first chapter is not at all about Kahneman and Tversky, but about the use of metrics by the Houston Rockets in the NBA Very interesting to me...He suggested a new definition of the nerd a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust itMichael Lewis, The Undoing Project A Friendship that Changed Our MindsTversky Intelligence TestThe faster you realized Tversky was smarter than you, the smarter you were I love Michael Lewis His ability for finding an idea that is centered on a person and then telling that person s story is phenomenal He isn t the only one that does it John McPhee is a master at this angle perhapsHe suggested a new definition of the nerd a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust itMichael Lewis, The Undoing Project A Friendship that Changed Our MindsTversky Intelligence TestThe faster you realized Tversky was smarter than you, the smarter you were I love Michael Lewis His ability for finding an idea that is centered on a person and then telling that person s story is phenomenal He isn t the only one that does it John McPhee is a master at this angle perhaps THE master Lewis just does it very, very well This book is basically a book about the development of behavioral economics, or at least the thread of behavioral economics that came from two Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky These men were two brilliant academics drawn together b...To start with the mundane and annoying for a book with this much technical content, terms, and names an index almost seems a necessity, yet none was provided More foot endnotes and perhaps a fuller bibliography would be helpful, too We must support the popularization of scholarly topics, and I ve read that it takes, on average, at least 20 years for new ideas, analyses, and discoveries to move out of the academic curriculum of higher education to what we teach our children in secondary school To start with the mundane and annoying for a book with this much technical content, terms, and names an index almost seems a necessity, yet none was provided More foot endnotes and perhaps a fuller bibliography would be helpful, too We must support the popularization of scholarly top...

The Undoing Project
  • English
  • 26 May 2018
  • Paperback
  • 368 pages
  • 0393354776
  • Michael Lewis
  • The Undoing Project