Noise
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
ISBN: 9780316451406
First entered: 22nd, May 2021
Number of weeks: 6
Book Summary
Authors
Name: Cass R. Sunstein
Born: Sep, 1954
About the author:
Cass R. Sunstein is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who currently is the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration. For 27 years, Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School, where he continues to teach as the Harry Kalven Visiting Professor. Sunstein is currently Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he is on leave while working in the Obama administration.
Name: Daniel Kahneman
Hometown: Tel Aviv
Born: Mar, 1934
About the author:
From Wikipedia:
Daniel Kahneman (Hebrew: דניאל כהנמן (born 5 March 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, notable for his work on behavioral finance and hedonic psychology.
With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases (Kahneman & Tversky, 1973, Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky, 1982), and developed Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979). He was awarded the 2002
Nobel Prize in Economics
for his work in Prospect theory. Currently, he is professor emeritus of psychology at Princeton University's Department of Psychology.
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