Thinking

Resumen del libro

A short, cutting-edge master class covering everything you need to know about thinking and decision-making-featuring contributions by the world's leading psychologists and thinkers, including Daniel Kahneman, Nassim Taleb, Richard Thaler, and more



In Thinking, today's most influential scientists and psychologists explain everything you need to know about the unique processes of human thought, rationality, happiness, and decision-making.


Contributors and topics include:

-"Leaning to Expect the Unexpected" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (author of The Black Swan), grappling with the problem of "randomness" and the limits of the human mind to effectively model and comprehend it.
-"Thinking About Thinking" by Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Prize winning author of Thinking, Fast and Slow), a "master class" in looking inward at human thought, with topics spanning happiness, decision-making, problem-solving, and predictive utility.
-"Affective Forecasting... Or... The Big Wombassa: What You Think You're Going to Get, and What You Don't Get, When You Get What You Want" by Daniel Gilbert (author of Stumbling on Happiness), on the uniquely human ability to forecast what we want-and why people are rarely as happy or unhappy as they might expect to be.
-"Smart Heuristics" by Gerd Gigerenzer, on human rationality and the heuristics involved in the wide-ranging fields of human choice.
-"Probing The Limits Of Statistics by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, on data analysis and the notion that the more data one has, the more likely one is to be "fooled" by randomness.
-"A Short Course In Behavioral Economics" by The Reality Club (Richard Thaler, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Daniel Kahneman), a "master class" on the study of various impacting forces that affect economic individuals and institutions.

Biografía del autor

John Brockman(Boston, 1941) es un empresario cultural con una amplia trayectoria en el campo del arte, la ciencia, los libros, el software e Internet. En 1960 sentó las bases de los entornos cinéticos intermedia aplicables al arte, al teatro y a los negocios mientras asesoraba a General Electric, Columbia Pictures, el Pentágono, la Casa Blanca... En 1973 creó su propia agencia literaria y de software. Es fundador de Edge Foundation 1 y editor de Edge, aclamada página web donde los pensadores más destacados, líderes de lo que él llama Tercera Cultura , analizan la ciencia más vanguardista. Es autor y editor de varios libros, entre ellos: La tercera cultura (1995); The greatest inventions of the past 2000 years (2000); Los próximos cincuenta años (2002) y The new humanists (2003). Goza del privilegio de haber aparecido en la primera página del Science Times (1997) y del Arts x{0026} 38; Leisure (1966), ambos suplementos del New York Times.