Before the pioneering work done by Kahneman and his research partner, Amos Tversky, who died in 1996, economists had assumed that people were “rational,” meaning we are self-interested ...

Together with Amos Tversky, his longtime collaborator, the pair undermined the long-held belief in the field of economics that humans are 'rational actors'. The research, described in Kahneman's ...

Long-time companion Amos Tversky and Kahneman dedicated their academic lives to the psychological phenomena around judgement and decision-making, establishing a new way of thinking about human errors ...