Dan Gardner in PastPresentFuture:
Daniel Kahneman died last week at the age of 90. His legacy is immense. He was, as he put it, the “grandfather” of behavioural economics — think economics but with a realistic model of what a human is — a role which won him a Nobel Prize. But Kahneman’s legacy is bigger than that. Kahneman and Tversky changed how we think about how people think, and if you change that, you change everything. You can see their influence all across the social sciences and much of the humanities.
But this is not a remembrance of Daniel Kahneman, whose endorsement of two of my books will forever be a professional highlight. There are many, lovely reflections on Kahneman as a man and scholar. I recommend Daniel Engber’s appreciation of Kahneman’s willingness to say those three simple words, “I was wrong.”
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