Thinking, Fast and Slow
How two systems of thought shape every judgment we make
The mind runs on two systems — a fast, intuitive one that jumps to conclusions, and a slow, deliberate one that does the hard work. Most of our errors come from trusting the fast one when we should slow down.
Daniel Kahneman was a psychologist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for work he did with Amos Tversky on judgment and decision-making — the founding research of behavioral economics. Published in 2011, this book collects a career’s worth of that research into a single framework: System 1 (fast, automatic, intuitive) and System 2 (slow, effortful, deliberate), and the long list of biases that show up when we let the first one run the show.
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