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Mar 2024
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Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinki...

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In an episode of More or Less from 2012, Daniel Kahneman – the Nobel prize-winning behavioural economist who has died at the age of 90 – explains the big ideas in his book Thinking, Fast and Slow.

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