Title: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Author: Daniel Kahneman
Genre: Popular Science (non-fiction)
Pages: 512
Rating (out of 5 stars): ****
Reviewed by: Ben
Description: Daniel Kahneman, a Nobel-Prize winning psychologist, boils down decades of psychological research into how humans think and make decisions into a single volume. In it, he describes the differences between fast and slow thinking, the biases that result from fast thinking, and ways that our surroundings and experiences can alter our decision-making in surprising ways.
Thoughts: This was a spectacular book if you like psychology and/or economics. It basically covers all of behavioral economics in a very readable format, with clear examples but enough technical detail as well. I liked it enough that I bought a print copy of it for reference. However, keep in mind that it does kind of read like a reference book a little bit; it got to be a bit tiresome to read straight through, I thought. Still, an amazing book from one of the best thinkers in the past 50 years.
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