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The Undoing Project

Disciplines:
psychology
storytelling/narrative
behavioral economics
kahneman/tversky

Summary

Michael Lewis's 2016 account of the intellectual partnership between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky — the most complete narrative of how behavioral economics was created and what the friendship's unequal fame cost both men.

Core Contribution

Creates the narrative account of behavioral economics' founding — The Undoing Project makes Kahneman and Tversky's intellectual collaboration and its personal costs comprehensible to non-academic readers.

Historical Influences

Thinking, Fast and Slow Lewis's narrative method

Intellectual Lineage

Michael Lewis W.W. Norton

Allied Works

Thinking, Fast and Slow Moneyball

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Behavioral economics popularization

Intellectual Posterity

The Undoing Project Kahneman-Tversky friendship narrative

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