Thursday, November 16, 2017

The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis


Lewis again picks an interesting subject and does not disappoint. The book is about Tversky and Kahneman and their unique relationship. Both Israeli, their life stories, their opposite personalities, and their breakout papers make a good story. The dynamics between them and the trajectory of their careers are the main story, though their actual discoveries will live on, I think. We are not as rational as we might like to think, or at least the road to "rationality" is a rocky one, fraught with potholes. I feel that most medical administrators and administrative doctors are blissfully unaware of Tversky's and Kahneman's warnings.

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