Summary of Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow”

Mark Looi
14 min readMar 5, 2020

Daniel Kahneman is a Nobel Laureate in Economics who is a psychologist by training. He won the prize mostly for his work in decision making, specifically Prospect Theory. This book distills a lifetime of work on the engine of human thinking, highlighting our cognitive biases and showing both the brilliance and limitations of the human mind. This summary attempts to capture some of the more interesting…

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Mark Looi

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