The Undoing Project

Israeli psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, whose studies showed that the human mind makes systematic errors when it judges under uncertainty, are the subject of Michael Lewis's account of their partnership. Their research on the mental shortcuts behind judgment and decisions helped create behavioral economics and later shaped evidence-based medicine and new approaches to regulation. Lewis contrasts the two men: Tversky a confident extrovert at the center of any room, Kahneman an introvert who had fled the Nazis as a child and whose self-doubt fed his ideas. Both served in the Israeli military. A coin toss decided the lead author of their first paper. Lewis also follows how the partnership eventually came apart.

David Heinemeier Hansson praised Lewis as a great storyteller and summed it up as the story of two psychologists who mapped the irrational mind, though he found it a bit long-winded. Walmart chief executive Doug McMillon named it among his favorite reads of 2017.