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The Undoing Project

a Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Jan 09, 2018JLMason rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Michael Lewis has a talent for creating readable and interesting stories out of seemingly mundane or arcane subjects, but the material for this book was simply too challenging to render into something as accessible as Money Ball or The Big Short. There’s only so much he can write about two brilliant psychologists collaborating to create ground breaking approaches for revealing how humans think and make decisions. In fact the most interesting parts of the book were about the early lives of Kahneman, Tversky, and other Israeli colleagues during Israel’s founding years. The better book to learn about their research is Kahneman’s own “Thinking Fast and Slow”, or try behavioural economist Richard Thaler’s book “Nudge” for how it can be applied.