Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2024-04-06
Books mentioned on EXTRA: Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Nobel laureate, bestselling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman died in March. In 2021 he talked with Steve Levitt — his friend and former business partner — about his book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (cowritten with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein) and much more.
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 psychology book that explores the dual systems of human thought, detailing how cognitive biases, heuristics, and systematic errors shape judgment and decision-making.
Discussed“He proved he could connect with a popular audience as well; his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow was a blockbuster bestseller.”
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Superfreakonomics
Superfreakonomics by Steven D.
Discussed“I was in New York City shortly after the release of super Freakonomics the follow-up to Freakonomics and that book was proving to be quite controversial because of a chapter we had written on climate change”
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Noise
Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R.
Discussed“but more seriously what's striking about your new book which is called noise is that while it builds on your enormous lifelong academic accomplishments many of the ideas are new and you've created these ideas in the last 10 years”
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The undoing project
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book that explores the profound intellectual partnership and friendship between psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose groundbreaking work laid the foundation for behavioral economics.
Discussed“and also to ask Danny how he felt about Michael Lewis's book The undoing project which tells the story of K and T's partnership in a very intimate and personal way”
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