[Llegir] (Bucher) 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
