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The Undoing Project

A Friendship That Changed the World

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The Undoing Project

By: Michael Lewis
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
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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.

In this breathtaking new audiobook, Michael 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.

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The story of Danny and Amos sneaks up on you. Michael Lewis writes with their pragmatism which guards you as you listen to stories so unimaginable in their horror... until the last sentence where you fracture. Amazing - this book and these men have affected me in a way no other book has.

Tragic and overwhelmingly beautiful

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Found some of this book a bit tedious and difficult to keep listening to in parts. But it was worth it for the history of behavioural economics.

Prelude to Thinking Fast and Slow

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This was a beautiful telling of the lives of The Odd Couple of the unexpected, yet wholly important, bridging of the studies of economics and psychology, later galvanised in Richard Thayler's work on Behavioral Economics.

The telling of their story is superb and, despite Lewis' stated attempts to present a book which would be "unfilmable" has, to me, so articulately constructed a work which renders itself so easily to the big screen, that I believe if that's his true ambition, he ought to try harder. Given his roles in Lewis' previous adaptations, Moneyball and The Big Short, I would cast Pitt as Redelmeier.

A Beautiful Telling

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Enjoyable but somehow left a little hollow. Would rather slightly less waffle and more examples of how their theories are used in practice today Maybe that’s a follow up book ...

Good but ....

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This is a book for those who are interested in psychology and personal development. It was an eye opener to the systematic biases that we are prone too. I definitely recommend reading or listening to this book.

Well written and well read

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Great story mixed in with some really exciting discoveries in the field of psychology and economics. Dense with information and very thought provoking.

Fantastic book

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I have long loved Behavioural Economics and the under lying psychology and Michael Lewis's books. so great to have him writing this book. loved it very well explained as always.

awesome combination

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Thinking Fast and Slow. have struggled getting into that book, both listening and reading but this context was great. Typical and excellent Michael Lewis.

After listening to this book, I must now listen to

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Not something i was previously interested in, but this was an interesting story. probably considered dry material, but very well written.

interesting story

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John Williams in the NYTimes Book Review once wrote of Michael Lewis "I would read an 800-page history of the stapler if he wrote it." I probably would too.

If you like Michael Lewis, you'll like this

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