Anybody heard anything about it or, better yet, read it?
Kahneman's new book "Thinking, Fast and Slow"
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It's far, far more psych than econ, but still quite interesting. One funny tidbit is that Kahneman implies Bruno Frey was an indirect inspiration for prospect theory:
"One day in the early 1970s, Amos handed me a mimeographed essay by a Swiss economist named Bruno Frey, which discussed the psychological assumptions of economic theory. I vividly remember the color of the cover: dark red. Bruno Frey barely recalls writing the piece, but I can still recite its first sentence: `The agent of economic theory is rational, selfish, and his tastes do not change.'"
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For those not aware--Kahneman received his Nobel for joint work with Tversky--who passed away in the 90s and so never received a Nobel. All the serious work by Kahneman was joint work with Tversky. Kahneman's later work without Tversky is mediocre--not nearly brilliant. Tversky is a bit of a legend in the field--and it carries great prestige to have been one of his grad students. You never really hear that so-and-so was a "Kahneman-student." Though some of Kahneman's students are well-known, their association to Kahneman is less so.
It is not uncommon to hear big guys in the field who know the couplet refer to Kahneman as "unimpressive" while in the same breath praise Tversky for his brilliance.