In 2003, we reviewed “Moneyball,” Michael Lewis’s book about Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s. The book, we noted, had become a sensation, despite focussing on what would seem to be the least exciting ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won a Nobel Prize in economics for his insights into how ingrained neurological biases influence decision making, died Wednesday at the age of 90.

Nothing in his early life suggested that Daniel Kahneman, who died last week at the age of 90, would eventually win a Nobel Prize in economics. To start, the 2002 Nobel laureate was trained in another ...

There are people who change your life because of their proximity to you and yours—and then there are those who change your life without you even knowing they exist. Regardless of which of those ...

Eldar Shafir is the director of the Kahneman–Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton University, New Jersey. Israeli US psychologist Daniel Kahneman was sceptical when ...

Michael Lewis’s brilliant book celebrates Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Israeli-American psychologists who are our age’s apostles of doubt about human reason. The timing is fortunate, given that ...

While Tversky was “the most terrifying mind most people had ever encountered,” he was uncharacteristically receptive to Kahneman’s ideas. Kahneman, for his part, found Tversky’s arrogance surprisingly ...