Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman

By Daniel Kahneman

The Nobel laureate’s summary of a lifetime’s research on judgement. Kahneman describes two systems of thought: System 1, fast, automatic and confident, and System 2, slow, effortful and lazy. Most of the book is an inventory of the errors the first one makes and the second one fails to catch — anchoring, availability, loss aversion, overconfidence — with the experiments that demonstrate each. Foundational reading for behavioural economics.

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