Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2024-04-14
Books mentioned on Extra: The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution (Update)
The psychologist Daniel Kahneman — a Nobel laureate and the author of Thinking, Fast and Slow — recently died at age 90. Along with his collaborator Amos Tversky, he changed how we all think about decision-making.
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 exploring the dual systems of the human mind and the cognitive biases that drive systematic errors in judgment.
Discussed“He became famous for his 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow, but it was his decades of earlier research, much of it done with his collaborator Amos Tversky, that revolutionized not only psychology but helped create the field of behavioral economics.”
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Moneyball
Moneyball by Michael Lewis is a celebrated book that chronicles how the Oakland Athletics baseball team used advanced statistical analysis and data-driven insights to field a competitive team on a modest budget.
Discussed“books like Moneyball which was about the way the Oakland A's managed to function on a a shoestring budget in Major League Baseball”
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The big short
Michael Lewis's 'The Big Short' is a compelling nonfiction narrative detailing the buildup of the housing bubble and the financial collapse of 2007 and 2008.
Discussed“or an even more unlikely book to be turned into a film The Big Short Lewis's book about how a housing bubble turned into a financial disaster”
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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“his latest book May pose the biggest challenge yet it is called the undoing project and it's about a pair of academics in a room alone for a few decades writing papers”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he became famous for his 2011 book thinking fast and slow but it was his Decades of earlier research”
“in 2016 the journalist Michael Lewis told the Conan derski story in his book The undoing project a friendship that changed our minds we spoke with Lewis about that book when it was published”