![]() ![]() He wanted to understand the world through understanding the people who lived in it. His interest in psychology was as a means to study philosophy. Danny had survived World War II, partly by evading concentration camps and moving to Israel had taught him that people were very strange. Lewis then introduces listeners to our main protagonists, Danny and Amos. Lewis had never heard these names before and he was intrigued. Rather, Moneyball was a good illustration of ideas that had originated from two Israeli psychologists named Daniel (Danny) Kahenam and Amos Tversky. Drawing on extensive interviews with Kahneman himself and excellent access to Tversky’s papers and his wife, Barbara, Lewis was able to construct an account of the friendship that lays bare, warts and all, the emotions, intellectual intensity, and tensions behind their creativity. ![]() Writing in The New Republic, Thaler and Sunstein argued that the ideas in Moneyball were not original. Michael Lewis, the author of the successful book-turned-movie Moneyball, found inspiration for his new book in a review by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "about the author" section. Please note: This is a key takeaways and analysis of the book and not the original book. ![]()
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