The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

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Synopsis

Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize–winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality.

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments about uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.

The Undoing Project is about the fascinating collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. In the process they may well have changed, for good, mankind’s view of its own mind.

Chapters

  • TheUndoingProject 01 Title

    Duration: 41s
  • TheUndoingProject 02 Introduction

    Duration: 07min
  • TheUndoingProject 03 Ch1

    Duration: 55min
  • TheUndoingProject 04 Ch2

    Duration: 01h00s
  • TheUndoingProject 05 Ch3

    Duration: 58min
  • TheUndoingProject 06 Ch4

    Duration: 48min
  • TheUndoingProject 07 Ch5

    Duration: 42min
  • TheUndoingProject 08 Ch6

    Duration: 55min
  • TheUndoingProject 09 Ch7

    Duration: 26min
  • TheUndoingProject 10 Ch8

    Duration: 47min
  • TheUndoingProject 11 Ch9

    Duration: 55min
  • TheUndoingProject 12 Ch10

    Duration: 41min
  • TheUndoingProject 13 Ch11

    Duration: 41min
  • TheUndoingProject 14 Ch12

    Duration: 48min
  • TheUndoingProject 15 Coda

    Duration: 26min
  • TheUndoingProject 16 Credits

    Duration: 01min