Book review: the undoing project: a friendship that changed our minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Originally reviewed in January, 2017 After reading about this book, I pre-ordered it, six months before its release date. It's about the work of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who published Thinking, Fast and Slow in 2011 and his late collaborator, Amos Tversky. Thinking, Fast and Slow had a big impact on me. Moreover, The Undoing Project's author is Michael Lewis, of Moneyball and The Big ...
From Michael Lewis, the Story of Two Friends Who Changed How We Think
THE UNDOING PROJECT A Friendship That Changed Our Minds By Michael Lewis 362 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $28.95.. In the fall of 1969, behind the closed door of an otherwise empty seminar room at ...
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Kahneman and Tversky approached their personal lives and their research in extremely divergent manners. At times, Lewis' details about the unlikely coupling overwhelm the larger narrative, but that is a minor complaint in another solid book from this gifted author. 1. Pub Date: Dec. 6, 2016.
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December 7, 2016. The book "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds," by Michael Lewis, tells the story of the psychologists Amos Tversky, left, and Daniel Kahneman, right ...
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The Undoing Project is published by Allen Lane (£25). To order a copy for £20.50 go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only.
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
THE UNDOING PROJECT explores how Kahneman and Tversky's insights helped transform fields as disparate as the Israeli military, the health care industry and (thanks to Cass Sunstein) the U.S. school lunch program, and ultimately upended our view of "the pitfalls in the human mind when it was required to render judgments in conditions of ...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project is a history of the birth of behavioral economics, but it's also Lewis's testament to the power of collaboration." ― Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek "Intellectually mesmerizing and inspiring." ― Harper's Bazaar "Mind-blowing… [The Undoing Project] will raise doubts about how you personally perceive reality."
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
In the case of Michael Lewis' new book, The Undoing Project, that sort of puristic arrogance would be completely out of place. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formed an intellectual partnership from which an entirely new mode of thinking about the limits of human rationality and decision-making has led to a new academic discipline that now ...
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Lewis set about learning more about the psychologists, and the result is his latest book, "The Undoing Project," a joint biography of Kahneman and Tversky, and a discussion of their ideas and ...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― Charlie Gofen, The National Book Review "Tantalizing and tender… Lewis is an irresistible storyteller and a master at illuminating complicated and fascinating subjects." ― Booklist, starred review. ... THE BOOK, THE UNDOING PROJECT, CAME QUICKLY AND IN EXCELLENT SHAPE. I am DELIGHTED I love a good hardcover book when I can get it.
The Undoing Project
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds is a 2016 nonfiction book by American author Michael Lewis, published by W.W. Norton. The Undoing Project explores the close partnership of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose work on heuristics in judgment and decision-making demonstrated common errors of the ...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Lewis, Michael: 9780393254594: Books - Amazon.ca ... The National Book Review Tantalizing and tender… Lewis is an irresistible storyteller and a master at illuminating complicated and fascinating subjects.—Booklist, starred review ...
Review: Michael Lewis on Two Well Matched (but Finally Mismatched) Men
For social-science nerds, Mr. Lewis provides the back story to Dr. Kahneman and Dr. Tversky's most famous papers. But the real drama of "The Undoing Project" — the scenes on the peak-end ...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Lewis has written one hell of a love story.—Jennifer Senior, New York Times Hugely important.—Samantha Power, New York Times Book Review A must-read.—Greg McKenna, Business Insider Fascinating stories about intriguing people.—Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, The New Yorker Brilliant… Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits ...
Book Review -- The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
In "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds," Michael Lewis tells the story of K&T's remarkable collaboration and one of the most productive academic partnerships in history.
The Undoing Project
The Undoing Project - Book Review. ... The Undoing Project, then, is a departure, because it's a biography of two well-established figures: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, the Israeli psychologists whose partnership produced the foundations of what we now call behavioural economics. Despite an introduction by Lewis declaring that he hadn ...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The National Book Review - Charlie Gofen ... Lewis's The Undoing Project turns back from data to the problem that number crunching leaves unsolved -- to the human mind when it is faced with uncertainty, processing evidence, forming judgments and misjudgments, drawing conclusions, arriving at decisions, good and bad. Many voices and theories ...
The Undoing Project (Book Review)
Book. Lewis, Michael. "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed our Minds." (2016). WW Norton & Co. Reviewer. Dr. Scott Downey, Associate Director and Professor. Summary. Michael Lewis (who wrote "Moneyball" and "The Big Short") presents this terrific story of the friendship and academic rivalry between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis. Norton, $28.95 (368p) ISBN 978--393-25459-4
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The Undoing Project is a history of the birth of behavioral economics, but it's also Lewis's testament to the power of collaboration." ― Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek "Lewis [is a] master of the character-driven narrative." ― Charlie Gofen, The National Book Review "Brilliant… Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great ...
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One criticism I have of the book is that some of the writing felt like a re-hash of Kahneman's 2011 magnum opus, "Thinking Fast and Slow," which is carefully organized around K&D's work. The "Undoing Project" by contrast, is more of a biography, with the academic ideas presented in hodgepodge fashion, or referred to only in passing ...
The Undoing Project Summary and Study Guide
A powerful dichotomy lies at the heart of The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (2016), Michael Lewis's account of how the friendship between two Israeli psychologists—Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky—essentially created the field of behavioral economics and shifted paradigms about human decision making. This dichotomy is the tension between intuition and algorithms ...
Book Review: The Undoing Project
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis, is a well-written story about two people who developed some important ideas. This book is a well-told story, but that's both its strength and its weakness. The story is about the ideas and relationship of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.
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Originally reviewed in January, 2017 After reading about this book, I pre-ordered it, six months before its release date. It's about the work of the psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who published Thinking, Fast and Slow in 2011 and his late collaborator, Amos Tversky. Thinking, Fast and Slow had a big impact on me. Moreover, The Undoing Project's author is Michael Lewis, of Moneyball and The Big ...
THE UNDOING PROJECT A Friendship That Changed Our Minds By Michael Lewis 362 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. $28.95.. In the fall of 1969, behind the closed door of an otherwise empty seminar room at ...
Kahneman and Tversky approached their personal lives and their research in extremely divergent manners. At times, Lewis' details about the unlikely coupling overwhelm the larger narrative, but that is a minor complaint in another solid book from this gifted author. 1. Pub Date: Dec. 6, 2016.
December 7, 2016. The book "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds," by Michael Lewis, tells the story of the psychologists Amos Tversky, left, and Daniel Kahneman, right ...
The Undoing Project is published by Allen Lane (£25). To order a copy for £20.50 go to bookshop.theguardian.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only.
THE UNDOING PROJECT explores how Kahneman and Tversky's insights helped transform fields as disparate as the Israeli military, the health care industry and (thanks to Cass Sunstein) the U.S. school lunch program, and ultimately upended our view of "the pitfalls in the human mind when it was required to render judgments in conditions of ...
The Undoing Project is a history of the birth of behavioral economics, but it's also Lewis's testament to the power of collaboration." ― Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek "Intellectually mesmerizing and inspiring." ― Harper's Bazaar "Mind-blowing… [The Undoing Project] will raise doubts about how you personally perceive reality."
In the case of Michael Lewis' new book, The Undoing Project, that sort of puristic arrogance would be completely out of place. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formed an intellectual partnership from which an entirely new mode of thinking about the limits of human rationality and decision-making has led to a new academic discipline that now ...
Lewis set about learning more about the psychologists, and the result is his latest book, "The Undoing Project," a joint biography of Kahneman and Tversky, and a discussion of their ideas and ...
― Charlie Gofen, The National Book Review "Tantalizing and tender… Lewis is an irresistible storyteller and a master at illuminating complicated and fascinating subjects." ― Booklist, starred review. ... THE BOOK, THE UNDOING PROJECT, CAME QUICKLY AND IN EXCELLENT SHAPE. I am DELIGHTED I love a good hardcover book when I can get it.
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds is a 2016 nonfiction book by American author Michael Lewis, published by W.W. Norton. The Undoing Project explores the close partnership of Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose work on heuristics in judgment and decision-making demonstrated common errors of the ...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds: Lewis, Michael: 9780393254594: Books - Amazon.ca ... The National Book Review Tantalizing and tender… Lewis is an irresistible storyteller and a master at illuminating complicated and fascinating subjects.—Booklist, starred review ...
For social-science nerds, Mr. Lewis provides the back story to Dr. Kahneman and Dr. Tversky's most famous papers. But the real drama of "The Undoing Project" — the scenes on the peak-end ...
Lewis has written one hell of a love story.—Jennifer Senior, New York Times Hugely important.—Samantha Power, New York Times Book Review A must-read.—Greg McKenna, Business Insider Fascinating stories about intriguing people.—Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler, The New Yorker Brilliant… Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits ...
In "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds," Michael Lewis tells the story of K&T's remarkable collaboration and one of the most productive academic partnerships in history.
The Undoing Project - Book Review. ... The Undoing Project, then, is a departure, because it's a biography of two well-established figures: Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, the Israeli psychologists whose partnership produced the foundations of what we now call behavioural economics. Despite an introduction by Lewis declaring that he hadn ...
The National Book Review - Charlie Gofen ... Lewis's The Undoing Project turns back from data to the problem that number crunching leaves unsolved -- to the human mind when it is faced with uncertainty, processing evidence, forming judgments and misjudgments, drawing conclusions, arriving at decisions, good and bad. Many voices and theories ...
Book. Lewis, Michael. "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed our Minds." (2016). WW Norton & Co. Reviewer. Dr. Scott Downey, Associate Director and Professor. Summary. Michael Lewis (who wrote "Moneyball" and "The Big Short") presents this terrific story of the friendship and academic rivalry between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds Michael Lewis. Norton, $28.95 (368p) ISBN 978--393-25459-4
The Undoing Project is a history of the birth of behavioral economics, but it's also Lewis's testament to the power of collaboration." ― Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek "Lewis [is a] master of the character-driven narrative." ― Charlie Gofen, The National Book Review "Brilliant… Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great ...
One criticism I have of the book is that some of the writing felt like a re-hash of Kahneman's 2011 magnum opus, "Thinking Fast and Slow," which is carefully organized around K&D's work. The "Undoing Project" by contrast, is more of a biography, with the academic ideas presented in hodgepodge fashion, or referred to only in passing ...
A powerful dichotomy lies at the heart of The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (2016), Michael Lewis's account of how the friendship between two Israeli psychologists—Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky—essentially created the field of behavioral economics and shifted paradigms about human decision making. This dichotomy is the tension between intuition and algorithms ...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, by Michael Lewis, is a well-written story about two people who developed some important ideas. This book is a well-told story, but that's both its strength and its weakness. The story is about the ideas and relationship of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.