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Tversky

Amos Tversky (1937–1996), an Israeli American psychologist. For decades he and Kahneman studied how people choose when the outcome is unknown.

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein

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• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown

  Amos Tversky (1937 to 1996), an Israeli psychologist and Kahneman's long-time co-author in research on errors of thinking.

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, Burton G. Malkiel

  Amos Tversky, a psychologist and Kahneman's longtime co-author in research on how people make decisions under risk.

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