Episode · EconTalk · 2025-12-29
Russ Roberts & Gerd Gigerenzer: books mentioned on EconTalk (Dec 2025)
In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer)
Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer explains the power of intuition, how intuition became gendered, what he thinks Kahneman and Tversky's research agenda got wrong, and why it's a mistake to place intuition and conscious thinking on opposing ends of the cognition spectrum.
Russ Roberts discussed The Intelligence of Intuition by Gerd Gigerenzer, Mathematica by David Bessis, and Primal Intelligence by Angus Fletcher. Gerd Gigerenzer discussed Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Intelligence of Intuition
Discussed“Our topic for today is his book, The Intelligence of Intuition. Gird, welcome back to Econ Talk.”
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Mathematica
Discussed“I interviewed David Bessis re recently on his book Mathematica which is a really he really champions intuition.”
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Primal Intelligence
Discussed“Then I interviewed Angus Fletcher recently his book primal intelligence is very much a defensive intuition slightly different interpretation than yours but but in the ballpark.”
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Blink
Discussed“Gladwell. Yeah, sorry. Uh wrote a book of my ideas and blink and uh popularized it.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Gut Feelings
“Yeah. So the uh I wrote a book uh called Gut Feelings long time ago and uh a few years later uh uh M uh Malcolm what is his name? Gladwell.”