Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist and Nobel laureate
Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist who won the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on judgment and decision-making.
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Born 1934 in Tel Aviv, Israel Died 2024
About Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman (1934 to 2024) was born in Tel Aviv and became an Israeli-American psychologist. He is known for research on judgment and decision-making and on behavioral economics. He shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Vernon L. Smith. Working with Amos Tversky and others, he showed a cognitive basis for common human errors that come from heuristics and biases, and helped develop prospect theory. His findings challenged the idea of human rationality that dominated modern economic theory. At Princeton University he held emeritus status as a professor of psychology and of public affairs. His book Thinking, Fast and Slow, published in 2011, sums up much of his research and became a best seller. The same year, Foreign Policy magazine named him to its list of top global thinkers. Our catalog also includes his book Noise.