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The Undoing Project
- A Friendship That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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The Undoing Project
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Publisher's Summary
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved, Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy.
In this breathtaking new audiobook, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football.
Kahneman and Tversky, shows Michael Lewis, helped shape the world in which we now live - and may well have changed, for good, humankind's view of its own mind.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- wideeyedgirl
- 28-04-2017
Tragic and overwhelmingly beautiful
The story of Danny and Amos sneaks up on you. Michael Lewis writes with their pragmatism which guards you as you listen to stories so unimaginable in their horror... until the last sentence where you fracture. Amazing - this book and these men have affected me in a way no other book has.
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- Michelle W.
- 24-06-2021
Prelude to Thinking Fast and Slow
Found some of this book a bit tedious and difficult to keep listening to in parts. But it was worth it for the history of behavioural economics.
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- Michelle
- 13-06-2017
Great book
Compelling, thought provoking story. I'll probably need it in paperback as well as it have me a lot to think about
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- Graeme E.
- 31-10-2022
If you like Michael Lewis, you'll like this
John Williams in the NYTimes Book Review once wrote of Michael Lewis "I would read an 800-page history of the stapler if he wrote it." I probably would too.
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- Lincoln Maurice
- 11-01-2017
A Beautiful Telling
This was a beautiful telling of the lives of The Odd Couple of the unexpected, yet wholly important, bridging of the studies of economics and psychology, later galvanised in Richard Thayler's work on Behavioral Economics.
The telling of their story is superb and, despite Lewis' stated attempts to present a book which would be "unfilmable" has, to me, so articulately constructed a work which renders itself so easily to the big screen, that I believe if that's his true ambition, he ought to try harder. Given his roles in Lewis' previous adaptations, Moneyball and The Big Short, I would cast Pitt as Redelmeier.
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- djn63
- 19-03-2020
Good but ....
Enjoyable but somehow left a little hollow. Would rather slightly less waffle and more examples of how their theories are used in practice today Maybe that’s a follow up book ...
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- Balaji Iyer
- 27-08-2018
Well written and well read
This is a book for those who are interested in psychology and personal development. It was an eye opener to the systematic biases that we are prone too. I definitely recommend reading or listening to this book.
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- Yaniv
- 25-03-2017
Fantastic book
Great story mixed in with some really exciting discoveries in the field of psychology and economics. Dense with information and very thought provoking.
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- Rhetta
- 10-04-2019
awesome combination
I have long loved Behavioural Economics and the under lying psychology and Michael Lewis's books. so great to have him writing this book. loved it very well explained as always.
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- Enrico Massi
- 23-08-2019
After listening to this book, I must now listen to
Thinking Fast and Slow. have struggled getting into that book, both listening and reading but this context was great. Typical and excellent Michael Lewis.
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