Daniel Kahneman Quotes


Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it's interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible. You can make predictions, and a year later people won't remember them.


Citations

Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, p. 220.

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Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman
  • Born: March 5, 1934
  • Nationality: American, Israeli
  • Profession: Psychologist

Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli psychologist and economist notable for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making, as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). His empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory.