Best-selling psychologist of Thinking, Fast and Slow, dies at 90
One of the founders of behavioral economics, who incorporated human quirks into the study of how people make economic decisions, has died. Daniel Kahneman was 90.
by Scott Horsley
Mar 27, 2024
2 minutes
Updated March 27, 2024 at 4:20 PM ET
Daniel Kahneman, who understood that not all economic decision-making is strictly rational, has died at the age of 90. His research, which focused on the ways human psychology can warp rational thinking, was recognized with a Nobel Prize in 2002 and helped give rise to
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