Episode · EconTalk · 2023-02-13
Books mentioned on Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen
Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through the process.
Russ Roberts discussed Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a seminal exploration of behavioral psychology that examines the two systems of the human mind—intuitive thinking and deliberate reasoning—and how cognitive biases drive systematic errors in judgment.
Discussed“give an idea of how widespread this is this illusion because because someone might say reasonably oh Adam come on nobody everybody knows it's a somewhat flawed process nobody really um I don't think that's true I'm going to give you the example of um Daniel Kahneman uh Nobel Prize winner in economics who has a chapter in his book”
Where to get it
