Adam talks with American writer Michael Lewis (The Big Short, Money Ball, Liar’s Poker etc.) about his book ‘The Undoing Project’, which tells the story of the friendship and fascinating work of psychologists Amos Tversky and Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman.
Much of the work of Tversky and Kahneman focuses on the human capacity to make errors of judgment based on unhelpful prejudices and rules of thumb that frequently operate beneath the level of our awareness.
Michael explains a few of these to Adam (who has never engaged in fallacies or systematic errors of any kind) as well as talking about the tensions that shaped Kahneman and Tversky’s friendship.
The conversation was recorded when Michael was visiting London in November 2017.
Thanks to Seamus Murphy Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for additional editing.
Music & jingles by Adam Buxton
Thanks to SonicCouture for instrument plug-in fun and Dan Hawkins for on-line bass.
EP.164 - COLSON WHITEHEAD
EP.163 - LAUREN PATTISON AND SAM LEE
EP.162 - JIM MOIR (AKA VIC REEVES)
EP.161 - GEORGIA PRITCHETT
EP.160 - SARAH SILVERMAN
EP.159 - TOMMY TIERNAN
EP.158 - ISABEL ALLENDE
EP.157 - ERIC ANDRÉ AND PHOEBE BRIDGERS
BONUS - JOE CORNISH RE. ADAM AND JOE AND MSF AUCTION
EP.156 - LEE MACK
EP.155 - LAURIE ANDERSON
EP.154 - TOM ALLEN
EP.153 - KAZUO ISHIGURO
EP.152 - ROSE MATAFEO
EP151 - TORVILL AND DEAN
EP.150 - LOUIS THEROUX LIVE AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL 2019
EP.149 - RÓISÍN MURPHY
EP.148 - TONY LAW
EP.147 - ELIZABETH DAY
EP.146 - STEWART LEE
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Conversations
Soundtracking with Edith Bowman
Help! I Have A Teenager
Wahlgren & Wistam
Mellan Himmel och Jord