TY - BOOK AU - Lewis,Michael TI - The undoing project: a friendship that changed the world SN - 9780241254738 (hbk.) : AV - QP360.5 U1 - 330.019 LEW 23 PY - 2016///] CY - UK PB - Allen Lane KW - Kahneman, Daniel, KW - Tversky, Amos KW - Cognitive neuroscience KW - Decision making KW - Statistical decision KW - Health and Fitness KW - eflch KW - Health and Wellbeing KW - ukslc N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - From the bestselling author of 'The Big Short' and 'Flash Boys', this is the surprising and profound story of the two men whose ideas changed the world. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football. Kahneman and Tversky, shows Michael Lewis, helped shape the world in which we now live - and may well have changed, for good, humankind's view of its own mind ER -