D.o.w.n.l.o.a.d [Epub ] The Undoing Project: A Friendship that
Changed Our Minds
By Michael Lewis
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.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
