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Introducing Your Fast and Slow Thinking

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It’s a beautiful sunny day. You’re driving effortlessly along an empty highway. Twenty minutes go by and you hardly remember looking at the road! An hour later some menacing clouds roll in.Rush-hour traffic is picking up. A storm hits. You pass an accident on the side of the road. Your concentration is being pushed to […]

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Kahneman’s Nobel Prize Speech

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On December 8, 2002, at Aula Magna, Stockholm University, Daniel Kahneman was presented the Nobel Prize in Economics for his brilliant and pioneering work in behavioral economics and psychology. This work was largely performed alongside his long-time research partner Amos Tversky, who died before the Nobel Prize was awarded. Kahneman is widely regarded as the […]

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Is Self-knowledge Overrated? – The New Yorker

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A friend pointed out this article from Jonah Lehrer at The New Yorker about Daniel Kahneman’s new book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow” (already pre-ordered for my Kindle!). Some good lines from it: Unlike homo economicus, that imaginary species featured in macroeconomics textbooks, Kahneman and Tversky demonstrated that real people don’t deal with uncertainty by carefully evaluating […]

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