Why do we decide to do the things we do? In "Thinking, Fast and Slow," author Daniel Kahneman tackles that very question. He examines what he deems our “cognitive blind spots.” Kahneman asks ...

Daniel Kahneman, in his recent book, described the differences between thinking fast and thinking slow. When we engage in fast thinking, our responses are driven by emotions, heuristics, and biases.

Reading Daniel Kahneman’s fantastic new book, Thinking Fast and Slow, on the eve of a presidential election can only lead to despair. Yet his careful experiments—designed to reveal how our ...

Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 512 pages There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece.