They worked together so closely that they couldn't remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. The Undoing Project is about a collaboration between two men who became heroes in the university and on the battlefield - both had important careers in the Israeli military - and whose research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms.
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.
Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Summary: Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process.
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