Thinking, Fast and Slow

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User Review - Christina_E_Mitchell - LibraryThing

Reading Progress, Day One: My brain hurts. Reading Progress, Day Two: Mistake to read the Introduction that recommended reading the academic journal articles on which the book is premised. Now that I ... Read full review

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User Review - nbmars - LibraryThing

Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize in economics for the work he did with his long-time intellectual partner, Amos Tversky. (Tversky probably would have shared in the prize had he lived.) Remarkably ... Read full review

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User Review - publiusdb - LibraryThing

I'm not entirely sure that I can adequately review Thinking Fast and Slow. It's so chock full of fantastic ideas, insights, and information that I'm afraid even trying to comment on it will make me ... Read full review

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User Review - Fips - LibraryThing

The qualities of human nature described in Thinking, Fast and Slow are already known to all of us at some level. We are all taught in society to believe in the rational, thinking human being as ... Read full review

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User Review - JohnPhelan - LibraryThing

Opportunity cost is one of the key concepts of economics; doing this means you can't do that at the same time, for example. The early part of Thinking, Fast and Slow is about how the brain economizes ... Read full review

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User Review - Britt84 - LibraryThing

I really loved this book. Kahneman provides a brief but extensive introduction to concepts in the psychology of decision making - and how decision making can go wrong. He discusses various theories ... Read full review

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User Review - P_S_Patrick - LibraryThing

A very important book on the way that people think. It exposes the cognitive biases that we are all prone to, which lead to errors of thinking and choice – many of which are absurd when we become ... Read full review