Daniel Kahneman
5 March 1934 – 27 March 2024
Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist whose work with Amos Tversky on judgement under uncertainty helped found behavioural economics. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for integrating psychological research into economics. His book Thinking, Fast and Slow summarised decades of research on the two systems of thought.
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Life events
Kahneman was born while his mother was visiting relatives; the family lived in France.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Kahneman family lived in hiding during the Second World War before moving to Palestine.
He studied psychology with a minor in mathematics.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis doctoral work was in perception and vision.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgTheir partnership produced the heuristics and biases research programme.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe paper in Econometrica offered an alternative to expected utility theory.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe became a professor of psychology and public affairs.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe shared the prize with Vernon L. Smith.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe book presented his research on fast intuitive and slow deliberative thinking to a general audience.
Source: en.wikipedia.org