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Apr 2024
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EXTRA: Remembering Daniel Kahneman

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Nobel laureate, bestselling author, and groundbreaking psychologist Daniel Kahneman died in March. In 2021 he talked with Steve Levitt — his friend and former business partner — about his book Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (cowritten with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein) and much more.

 

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    • Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University.

 

 

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