Thinking, Fast and Slow

Name: Thinking, Fast and Slow
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ISBN: 9780374533557

ISBN-10: 0374533555

ISBN-13: 9780374533557

Edition: 2013

Authors: Daniel Kahneman

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Selected by theNew York Times Book Reviewas one of the best books of 2011AGlobe and MailBest Books of the Year 2011 TitleOne ofThe Economist’s 2011 Books of the YearOne ofThe Wall Steet Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in psychology that challenged the rational model of judgment and decision making, is one of our most important thinkers. His ideas have had a profound and widely regarded impact on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but until now, he has never brought together his many years of research and thinking in one book.In the highly anticipatedThinking, Fast and…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/2/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.10" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Daniel Kahneman received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky on decision-making.



Introduction



Two Systems



The Characters of the Story



Attention and Effort



The Lazy Controller



The Associative Machine



Cognitive Ease



Norms, Surprises, and Causes



A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions



How Judgments Happen



Answering an Easier Question



Heuristics and Biases



The Law of Small Numbers



Anchors



The Science of Availability



Availability, Emotion, and Risk



Tom W's Specialty



Linda: Less is More



Causes Trump Statistics



Regression to the Mean



Taming Intuitive Predictions



Overconfidence



The Illusion of Understanding



The Illusion of Validity



Intuitions vs. Formulas



Expert Intuition: When Can We Trust It?



The Outside View



The Engine of Capitalism



Choices



Bernoulli's Errors



Prospect Theory



The Endowment Effect



Bad Events



The Fourfold Pattern



Rare Events



Risk Policies



Keeping Score



Reversals



Frames and Reality



Two Selves



Two Selves



Life as a Story



Experienced Well-Being



Thinking About Life


Conclusions



Judgment Under Uncertainty



Choices, Values, and Frames


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index