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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The two systems of the mind, by the psychologist who won the economics Nobel.
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- Author
- Daniel Kahneman
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- January 2011
- Pages
- 0
- Format
- Hardcover
- Size
- Standard
- Language
- English
The Library Essay
The Mind Economises, and It Shows
Daniel Kahneman's book presents the mind as two characters, a fast intuitive System 1 that produces impressions constantly and effortlessly, and a slow deliberate System 2 that could check them but is lazy about it. From that pairing flow the systematic errors he and Amos Tversky spent decades documenting, anchoring, availability, overconfidence, loss aversion, the substitution of easy questions for hard ones.
The research reshaped economics, earned Kahneman the Nobel memorial prize in 2002, and reached the general reader in this 2011 summation, which became one of the most influential books of its decade. It is also, quietly, a tribute to the collaboration with Tversky, who died before the prizes; the book's deepest lesson is its most practical, that confidence is a feeling, not evidence.
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