Daniel Kahneman

Born March 5, 1934 · Died 2024

From Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel · Nationality: United States, Israel · Writes nonfiction

Israeli-American psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics.

Quotes

“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Chapter 38
“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Chapter 19
“A recurrent theme of this book is that luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow, p. 9
“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.”
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Chapter 5
“No one ever made a decision because of a number. They need a story.”
Michael Lewis. "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World". Pengu

Books by Daniel Kahneman in order

Books by Daniel Kahneman in the order they were published, from Attention and Effort (1973) to Noise (2021).

Authors readers of Daniel Kahneman often like, from our AI-written notes

Amos TverskyHis long collaborator; their joint papers, including prospect theory, are the foundation of much of Kahneman's work.
Richard ThalerA key figure in behavioral economics who applied these ideas to markets and policy, as in Nudge, which he wrote with Cass Sunstein.
Cass SunsteinCo-author of Noise and co-author with Thaler of Nudge; writes on how small design choices shape decisions.
Gerd GigerenzerA leading critic of the heuristics-and-biases view, arguing that simple heuristics can be accurate. Useful for a balanced reading.
Michael LewisWrote The Undoing Project (2016), a narrative account of the friendship and work of Kahneman and Tversky.
Nassim Nicholas TalebWrites about uncertainty, probability and the limits of prediction, in a more polemical and less experimental style.