The Undoing Project - A True Story
Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
Auflage | 2017 |
Seiten | 368 |
Format | 13,1 x 19,7 x 2,2 cm |
Gewicht | 276 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 0141983043 |
EAN | 9780141983042 |
Bestell-Nr | 14198304EA |
From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the profound story of the two men whose ideas changed the world. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel, both gifted young psychology professors. Michael Lewis tells the story of a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics and revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine.
Klappentext:
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS'A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think ... What a story it is' Sunday Times
'You'll love it ... full of surprises and no small degree of tragedy' Tim Harford
In 1969 two men met on a university campus. Their names were Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. They were different in every way. But they were both obsessed with the human mind - and both happened to be geniuses. Together, they would change the way we see the world.'An enchanted collaboration ... During the final pages, I was blinking back tears' The New York Times 'My favourite writer full stop. Engages both heart and brain like no other' Daily Telegraph'Brilliant, a wonderful book, a masterclass' Spectator 'Psychology's Lennon and McCartney ... Lewis is exactly the storyteller they deserve' Observer
Rezension:
Michael Lewis is a brilliant writer... The Undoing Project is a masterclass in narrative non-fiction Steven Poole Spectator