Tag: Daniel Kahneman

  • Nation & World

    The quote machine

    Powered by Harvard conversations, an ever-expanding collection of arguments, insights, reactions, and reflections.

    23 minutes
    Toni Morrison, Amanda Gorman, Paul Farmer, Jill Lepore, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., Annette Gordon Reed, Drew Faust, Gish Jen.
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    Negotiating the irrational with Daniel Kahneman

    Nobel-winning behavioral economist and author of “Thinking Fast and Slow” shares advice on negotiation at Harvard event.

    5 minutes
    Illustration of glowing brain.
  • Nation & World

    Why doesn’t rationality seem to matter anymore?

    Rationality can be fixed, Steven Pinker argues, and if we don’t our democracy and environment may be at stake.

    6 minutes
    Steven Pinker.
  • Nation & World

    Flight from reason

    In his new book, “How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy,” Thomas Patterson looks at the rejection of logic and reason in American political life and how it threatens Democracy.

    26 minutes
    Thomas E. Patterson.
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    The duo who upended intuition

    On a visit to Harvard, best-selling author Michael Lewis talked about the deep friendship and pioneering collaboration of famed psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose work created the field of behavioral economics.

    5 minutes
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    Layers of choice

    Nobel laureate, psychologist, and best-selling author Daniel Kahneman joined Harvard University Professor Cass Sunstein at Harvard Business School for a wide-ranging discussion on behavioral science.

    4 minutes
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    HKS announces winners of Neustadt and Schelling Awards

    One of the nation’s most eminent economists and a dynamic young development economist are recipients of the 2011 Richard E. Neustadt and Thomas C. Schelling Awards.

    1 minute