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271. The Men Who Started a Thinking Revolution

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Amos Tversky and Danny Kahneman

Amos Tversky had a sterility to his academic interests./nAmos assumed that people were basically rational./nDaniel Kahneman challenged the assumptions of mainstream economics and psychology./nKahneman pointed out that people make systematic mistakes in decision-making./nThe collaboration between Tversky and Kahneman was unexpected at Hebrew University.

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