![]() He immerses himself in big ideas about finance, technology, sports and, ultimately, the human condition and then explains them to readers with sophistication and clarity. Michael displays a rare combination for a writer. ![]() I have read every book and article written by Michael Lewis since Michael’s first book released in 1989, called “ Liar’s Poker”, in which he wrote about the Wall Street boom of that decade and his part as a bond salesman for Solomon Brothers. One of the Israeli duo’s observations was that “no one ever made a decision because of a number – they needed a story”. Practising what they preached, their scientific papers were rigorous with fact and research but laced with memorable parable and anecdote. Kahneman and Tversky argued and proved that in the main humans decided things emotionally, not rationally. The trick or emotionally intelligent way to make decisions was to recognise those habits and not confuse emotion for rationality. The result of Kahneman and Tversky’s “bromance” was not only behavioural economics but the establishment of the cognitive rules for human irrationality that has arguably done as much to define our world. ![]() ![]() The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis tells the story of the deep friendship and intellectual collaboration between the two Israeli psychologists who invented “behavioural economics”, Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. ![]()
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