The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds - Couverture rigide

Lewis PhD, Professor Michael

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ISBN 10 : 0393254593 ISBN 13 : 9780393254594

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Best-selling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel prize winning theory of the mind changed society forever. In The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis brings his narrative gift to the fascinating collaboration between Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality. Kahneman and Tversky showed the ways in which the human mind errs, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. By undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process, Kahneman and Tversky's breathtaking work created the field of behavioural economics, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made possible much of Lewis's own writing on topics from business to baseball.These characters have the dramatic complexity of great literary figures, heroes both in the university and on the battlefield. "Intellectually mesmerizing and inspiring." Harper's Bazaar "Lewis has written one hell of a love story." The New York Times "Fascinating stories about intriguing people." The New Yorker

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0393254593
• ISBN 13: 9780393254594
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 368