A friendship that changed our minds’ by Michael Lewis

Riccardo De Bonis

Argomenti, 2018, vol. 11, issue 11, 1-9

Abstract: The article is a review of ‘The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds’ by Michael Lewis. After describing the formative years of the two psychologists , the article summarises the concept of rationality in economics before the work of Kahneman and Tversky and analyses the innovations they introduced, focusing on prospect theory. To conclude, the scientific heritage of the Israeli duo is discussed.

Keywords: behavioral economics; Kahneman; Tversky; rationality. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 B31 D91 Y30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.14276/1971-8357.1801

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