The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

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  • Author:  Michael Lewis
  • Collection:  "Beautiful Mind" Collection
  • Year: 08-05-2018
  • Translator from English: Elena Filipova
  • Availability:  Out Of Stock
  • Product Code:  462-01
  • SKU: 13.0118
  • ISBN: 978-619-01-0222-9
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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 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 about a compelling 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. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, working together so closely that they couldn’t remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter.

This story about the workings of the human mind is explored through the personalities of two fascinating individuals so fundamentally different from each other that they seem unlikely friends or colleagues. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.

About the Author

Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. He has published a lot of bestselling books. He has also been a contributing editor to Vanity F... Read more

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Tags: Brain & Thinking, Scientific Theories, Famous Scientists, The Human Brain, Intelligence, Famous Psychologists, Consciousness & Subconsciousness, Biographies & Autobiographies

Specification
Year 08-05-2018
Translator from English: Elena Filipova
Pages 352
Size 140/215 мм
Weight 0.46 kg
Collection Колекция "Красив ум"
Cover Type Paperback
Genre Brain & Thinking, Scientific Theories, Famous Scientists, The Human Brain, Intelligence, Famous Psychologists, Consciousness & Subconsciousness, Biographies & Autobiographies

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