After the war, Kahneman’s family moved back to Israel when he was around 13 years old, even though he did not speak a word of Hebrew.
Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv in 1934, but spent most of his childhood years growing up in Paris with his family, and lived through the Holocaust of World War II. While they were both incredible Israeli scientists who eventually moved to the United States, Kahneman and Tversky both led very different lives. But it wasn’t their work or achievements that Michael Lewis wanted to focus on in this book – it was their one of a kind friendship. Kahneman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002, for the work that he and Tversky did in the psychology of judgment and decision-making, which revolutionised the way people understood economic sciences.
Ideally, it would also be best to have read Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman before starting on The Undoing Project, to understand why Michael Lewis decided to write a biography of Kahneman and his partner Amos Tversky. We will start with a series of books on decision making psychology and behavioural economics (the type that I love), in the following order that I recommend for better appreciation: The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis, Misbehaving by Richard Thaler and Inside the Nudge Unit by David Halpern. During its final pages, I was blinking back tears, hardly your typical reaction to a book about a pair of academic psychologists.After a 2-month hiatus, I’m back to blogging! But with many other things on my plate, I decided to keep it simple, and do some short reviews of books that I have read recently. Altschuler arguing in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that it "may well be his best book." Writing in The New Yorker, law professor Cass Sunstein and economist Richard Thaler praised the book's ability to explain complex concepts to lay readers as well as turn the biographies of Tversky and Kahneman into a page-turner: "He provides a basic primer on the research of Kahneman and Tversky, but almost in passing what is of interest here is the collaboration between two scientists." Jennifer Senior of The New York Times wrote that "At its peak, the book combines intellectual rigor with complex portraiture. It was acclaimed by book critics.Īccording to the review aggregator Bookmarks, The Undoing Project was met largely by rave reviews, with Glenn C.
The book revisits Lewis' interest in market inefficiencies, previously explored in his books Moneyball (2003), The Big Short (2010), and Flash Boys (2014). 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 human psyche, and how that partnership eventually broke apart. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds is a 2016 nonfiction book by American author Michael Lewis, published by W.W.
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