Books by Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky
“I like to say that this is the best-edited book that I’ve ever seen, at least since the New Testament. It has become gradually more popular over the last few decades; now it’s sometimes called behavioural economics, but it’s basically psychology. I think it’s just incredible – studies of overconfidence, of how people estimate uncertain quantities, the importance of the framing – I could give you a million examples of where if you describe a decision option in a different way, people make a different choice.” Read more...
Andrew Gelman, Mathematician
Interviews where books by Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky were recommended
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The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract
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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
by Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky -
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How Animals Work
by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen -
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The Honest Rainmaker
by A J Liebling -
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
The best books on Statistics, recommended by Andrew Gelman
The best books on Statistics, recommended by Andrew Gelman
Award-winning statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman says that uncertainty is an important part of life, and recognition of that uncertainty is itself an important step. He picks the best books on statistics.
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
by Charles Mackay -
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Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
by Daniel Kahneman & Paul Slovic and Amos Tversky -
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How We Know What Isn’t So
by Thomas Gilovich -
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The Winner’s Curse
by Richard Thaler -
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Predictably Irrational
by Dan Ariely
The best books on Decision-Making, recommended by Jonah Lehrer
The best books on Decision-Making, recommended by Jonah Lehrer
Behavioural economics is a very new field, but its insights have huge ramifications for our daily lives, including life-or-death decisions. Here, author Jonah Lehrer talks us through some of its most important works.
