- Published: 28 November 2011
- ISBN: 9780141918921
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Published: 28 November 2011
- ISBN: 9780141918921
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.Kahneman, a winner of the Nobel Prize for economics, distils a lifetime of research into an encyclopedic coverage of both the surprising miracles and the equally surprising mistakes of our conscious and unconscious thinking. He achieves an even greater miracle by weaving his insights into an engaging narrative that is compulsively readable from beginning to end. My main problem in doing this review was preventing family members and friends from stealing my copy of the book to read it for themselves...this is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read
William Easterly, Financial Times
Absorbing, intriguing...By making us aware of our minds' tricks, Kahneman hopes to inspire individuals and organisations to identify strategies to outwit them
Jenni Russell, Sunday Times
Profound . . . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch, Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be
The Economist
[Thinking, Fast and Slow] is wonderful, of course. To anyone with the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind, it is so rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd
Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of 'The Black Swan'
Daniel Kahneman is among the most influential psychologists in history and certainly the most important psychologist alive today...The appearance of Thinking, Fast and Slow is a major event
Steven Pinker, author of, The Language Instinct
Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time. There may be no other person on the planet who better understands how and why we make the choices we make. In this absolutely amazing book, he shares a lifetime's worth of wisdom presented in a manner that is simple and engaging, but nonetheless stunningly profound. This book is a must read for anyone with a curious mind
Steven D. Levitt, co-author of 'Freakonomics'
A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves
David Brooks, The New York Times
Kahneman provides a detailed, yet accessible, description of the psychological mechanisms involved in making decisions
Jacek Debiec, Nature
The book I most want to be given is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. I'm a speedy thinker myself, so am hoping to be endorsed in that practice.
Sally Vickers, Observer Books of the Year
In this comprehensive presentation of a life's work, the world's most influential psychologist demonstrates that irrationality is in our bones, and we are not necessarily the worse for it
10 Best Books of 2011, New York Times