Thinking, Fast and Slow, (Hardcover)

from the.ken.petersen

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I must make clear, however, before getting into the meat of a review, that this is not my area of expertise (if such exists!). Daniel Kahneman examines the human thought process and splits it into an imaginary, but useful for understanding, two function system. He ...

from browner56

What does it say about the state of an academic discipline when an experimental psychologist wins the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences? As someone whose formal training in the field was based almost exclusively on the "rational man" model, to me that event symbolized nothing short of a dramatic ...

from vguy

No surprise that h. Sapiens is subject to emotionally driven prejudice, snap judgement and leaping to biassed conclusions, Or that rationality is hard work, and not always present when we imagine it is. The striking thing in this book is the detail of how all this works, the trivial factors that ...

from EmreSevinc

Can you understand the modern world you live in without having any idea about the following terms and the concepts they convey: 'inflation', 'unemployment', 'advertisement', 'capitalism', 'liberalism', 'democracy', 'civil rights', 'energy'? In order to think about some field, to understand some a...

from oldman

A Nobel prize book for Economics this book was a "not to put down" book for me. The consistent logical thought process of the book was particularly appealing, as was the basic premiss of the book - humans think at two speeds, fast and slow. Well worth reading again.