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The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis · 2017

Lewis tells the story of Kahneman and Tversky's extraordinary intellectual partnership — the friendship that created behavioral economics. A biography of ideas: how two Israeli psychologists overturned the foundations of economics by proving that human judgment is systematically wrong. Lewis's most personal book, and the origin story behind the science that changed investing forever.

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Lewis opens with a long chapter about the Houston Rockets that belongs to a different book, then spends much of the rest paraphrasing science Kahneman already explained better in Thinking, Fast and Slow. The friendship is genuinely moving. The ideas arrive pre-chewed, and if you have read the original, this is the authorized novelization.

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