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An economics Nobel, Kahneman never took and economics course but pioneered a psychological approach to the field in collaboration with Amos Tversky. In their research, Kahneman and Tversky showed how the Human mind is apt to engage in numerous fallacies and systematic errors we should be aware of to avoid bias and errors.

An intellectual giant, Kahneman is most well known for his 2011 book Thinking Fast and Slow.

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