Major New York Times bestseller
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best
books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
2011
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's The
Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
In his mega bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman,
the renowned psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics,
takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two
systems that drive the way we think.
System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more
deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on
corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us
happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on
everything from playing the stock market to planning our next
vacation--each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two
systems shape our judgments and decisions.
Engaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think,
Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we
can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and
enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and
our personal lives--and how we can use different techniques to guard
against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of
the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one
of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking*, Fast and Slow* is destined to
be a classic.
