Daniel Kahneman: The Unlikely Economist
How an outsider won a Nobel Prize.
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The Nobel Prize-winning economist parses the roles of emotion, cognition, and perception in the understanding of business risk.
Daniel Kahneman, who has died aged 90, was a psychologist who shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics, with Vernon Smith, for work carried out with Amos Tversky which revealed the inadequacy of the most basic assumptions made by economists – that man is a rational being – and led to the creation of a new strand of economic thinking, behavioural economics; he also had interesting things to say about Brexit.
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