The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

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Overview

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality—now available at a great value!

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.

The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield—both had important careers in the Israeli military—and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781508269236
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Publication date: 09/04/2018
Edition description: Unabridged
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 5.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Undoing Project, Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and The Big Short, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.

Dennis Boutsikaris won an OBIE Award for his performance in Sight Unseen and played Mozart in Amadeus on Broadway. Among his films are *batteries not included, The Dream Team, and Boys On the Side. His many television credits include And Then There Was One, Chasing the Dragon, and 100 Center Street.

Date of Birth:

October 15, 1960

Place of Birth:

New Orleans, LA

Education:

Princeton University, B.A. in Art History, 1982; London School of Economics, 1985

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Problem that Never Goes Away 15

1 Man Boobs 21

2 The Outsider 52

3 The Insider 85

4 Errors 116

5 The Collision 142

6 The Mind's Rules 165

7 The Rules of Prediction 196

8 Going Viral 212

9 Birth of the Warrior Psychologist 238

10 The Isolation Effect 268

11 The Rules of Undoing 291

12 This Cloud of Possibility 313

Coda: Bora-Bora 339

A Note on Sources 353

Acknowledgments 361

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