Thinking Fast and Slow - Kahnerman
William Leith25 May 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
(Penguin, £8.99)
Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize for economics in 2002, has spent his working life thinking about how human beings think, and this is the result. It is superb. If you read it, you will be enlightened. Why do we make the decisions we make? He explains it all — how our minds are tugged in this and that direction, often without our knowledge. Reading this, you can see where you went wrong in the past, and how others might be able to take advantage of you. He’s very good on statistics and their misuse. He introduces us to thinkers such as Bernoulli, von Neumann, and Taleb. He’s good company, too.
