TY - BOOK AU - Lewis,Michael TI - UNDOING PROJECT: Friendship that changed our minds SN - 9780241254738 U1 - 612.8233 PY - 2017////01/01 CY - UK PB - Allen Lane -Penguin Books KW - Neurosciences KW - Psychologists KW - Statistical decision KW - Cognitive neuroscience KW - Decision making KW - Economics--Psychological aspects KW - Kahneman, Daniel, 1934- KW - Tversky, Amos N1 - Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new book, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine, from how we are governed to how we spend, from high finance to football. Kahneman and Tversky, shows Michael Lewis, helped shape the world in which we now live - and may well have changed, for good, humankind's view of its own mind ER -