Thinking, Fast and Slow

Major New York Times bestseller
Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012
Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
One of The Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011
2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
Kahneman's work with Amos Tversky is the subject of Michael Lewis's The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

In the international bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, the renowned 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. System 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.

Engaging 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. Winner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the ten best books of 2011, Thinking, Fast and Slow is destined to be a classic.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 10/25/2011
ISBN: 9780374275631
Pages: 499
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.80d
Award: ALA Notable Books - Winner
Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner

Review Citations: Booklist 10/01/2011 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 10/03/2011
Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2011
Library Journal 10/15/2011 pg. 96
New York Times Book Review 11/27/2011 pg. 16
New Yorker (The) 11/14/2011 pg. 84
New York Review of Books 12/22/2011 pg. 40
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/04/2011 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 12/04/2011 pg. 70
Men's Journal 12/01/2011 pg. 42
Choice 06/01/2012