{"product_id":"thinking-fast-and-slow","title":"Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (English, Softcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*Major \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e*More than 2.6 million copies sold\u003cbr\u003e*One of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review's\u003c\/em\u003e ten best books of the year\u003cbr\u003e*Selected by \u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e as one of the best nonfiction books of the year\u003cbr\u003e*Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient\u003cbr\u003e*Daniel Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling \u003cem\u003eThe Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn his mega bestseller, \u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/em\u003e, Daniel Kahneman, world-famous psychologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSystem 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEngaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Topping bestseller lists for almost ten years, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a contemporary classic, an essential book that has changed the lives of millions of readers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"book-news__title h2\"\u003eIn The News\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-news__list js-button-show-more__content is-active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently entertaining . . . So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky's work ‘will be remembered hundreds of years from now,' and that it is ‘a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.'”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJim Holt, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman's \u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow . . . \u003c\/em\u003eThis is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Easterly, \u003cem\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I will never think about thinking quite the same. [\u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/em\u003e] is a monumental achievement.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eRoger Lowenstein, \u003cem\u003eBloomberg\/Businessweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant . . . It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman's contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud. Arguably the most important psychologist in history, Kahneman has reshaped cognitive psychology, the analysis of rationality and reason, the understanding of risk and the study of happiness and well-being.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanice Gross Stein, The Globe and Mail \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Everyone should read \u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eJesse Singal, \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/em\u003e] is wonderful. To anyone with the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind, it is so rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Lewis, \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Profound . . . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch, Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we assume ourselves to be.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] tour de force of psychological insight, research explication and compelling narrative that brings together in one volume the high points of Mr. Kahneman's notable contributions, over five decades, to the study of human judgment, decision-making and choice . . . Thanks to the elegance and force of his ideas, and the robustness of the evidence he offers for them, he has helped us to a new understanding of our divided minds—and our whole selves.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eChristoper F. Chabris,\u003cem\u003e The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Brooks, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“For anyone interested in economics, cognitive science, psychology, and, in short, human behavior, this is the book of the year. Before Malcolm Gladwell and \u003cem\u003eFreakonomics, \u003c\/em\u003ethere was Daniel Kahneman, who invented the field of behavior economics, won a Nobel . . . and now explains how we think and make choices. Here's an easy choice: read this.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting thinkers of our time. There may be no other person on the planet who better understands how and why we make the choices we make. In this absolutely amazing book, he shares a lifetime's worth of wisdom presented in a manner that is simple and engaging, but nonetheless stunningly profound. This book is a must read for anyone with a curious mind.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eSteven D. Levitt, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago; co-author of \u003cem\u003eFreakonomics\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSuperFreakonomics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThinking, Fast and Slow\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterpiece—a brilliant and engaging intellectual saga by one of the greatest psychologists and deepest thinkers of our time. Kahneman should be parking a Pulitzer next to his Nobel Prize.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel Gilbert, Harvard University Professor of Psychology, author of \u003cem\u003eStumbling on Happiness\u003c\/em\u003e, host of the award-winning PBS television series \"This Emotional Life\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as \u003cem\u003eThe Wealth of Nations \u003c\/em\u003eby Adam Smith and \u003cem\u003eThe Interpretation of Dreams by \u003c\/em\u003eSigmund Freud\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cstrong\u003eNassim Taleb, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Black Swan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daniel Kahneman is among the most influential psychologists in history and certainly the most important psychologist alive today. He has a gift for uncovering remarkable features of the human mind, many of which have become textbook classics and part of the conventional wisdom. His work has reshaped social psychology, cognitive science, the study of reason and of happiness, and behavioral economics, a field that he and his collaborator Amos Tversky helped to launch. 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