Daniel Kahneman

• Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist whose work on judgment and decision-making founded much of behavioural economics.
• With Amos Tversky, from 1969, he showed how heuristics lead to systematic errors and developed prospect theory, for which he shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Vernon L.
• Smith.
• He taught at the Hebrew University, the University of British Columbia, UC Berkeley and Princeton.
• His 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow summarises his research.
• He died in 2024.

Key facts

Born

5 March 1934, Tel Aviv; grew up in Paris1

Died

27 March 2024, Nunningen, Switzerland1

Nobel

2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with Vernon L. Smith, for integrating psychological research into economic science1

Education

BSc in psychology and mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1954); PhD in psychology, UC Berkeley (1961)1

Career

Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 1961; University of British Columbia until 1986; UC Berkeley from 1986 to 1994; then Princeton, where he was professor emeritus of psychology and public affairs1

With Amos Tversky

Collaboration from 1969: heuristics and biases, and prospect theory1

Books

Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011); Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (2021, with Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein)1

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