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Chosen by the Brand New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleOne of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year One of The Wall Steet Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel-Prize in Economic Sciences for his seminal work in mindset that questioned the logical type of judgment and decision-making, is one of our most significant thinkers. His ideas have experienced a serious and commonly considered effect on many fields—including economics, medicine, and politics—but so far, he's never delivered together his many decades of study and thinking in one single book.In the highly-anticipated Thinking, Fast and Sluggish, Kahneman takes us on a revolutionary visit of your brain and describes both methods that drive the way in which we believe. System 1 is intuitive, quick, and emotional; System 2 is more deliberative, slower, and more reasonable. Kahneman shows the persistent impact of user-friendly opinions on our conduct and ideas, and exposes the remarkable capabilities—and additionally the problems and biases—of quick thinking.