Thinking, Fast and Slow

BOOK SUMMARY

In the international bestseller Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman takes readers on a groundbreaking tour of the mind, explaining the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional, while System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.

Kahneman explores the impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulty of predicting what will make us happy, and the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from investing to planning our next vacation. He reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can use slow thinking to guard against mental errors that often lead us astray.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Kahneman is Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Princeton University and Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs Emeritus at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his pioneering work with Amos Tversky on decision-making.

PRAISE

“There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece.”
—William Easterly, Financial Times

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade paperback
512 pages
Non-fiction
8.2 in H | 5.5 in W | 1.4 in T | 1.1 lb