Danny Kahneman is an intellectual giant.

Trained as a psychologist and not an economist, he nonetheless received the 2002 Nobel Prize

in Economics.

But a Nobel Prize doesn't begin to capture Danny's influence.

Within academics, the scholar's impact is measured by citations, the number of times

other research articles refer to one scholarship.

Incredibly, of all the research papers ever written in the social sciences, Danny and

his co-author Amos Tabersky have written not just one, but two of the ten most cited articles

of all time.

I've had a pretty successful career in academics, but Danny has 26 papers that have more citations

than my most heavily cited paper.

And he proved he could connect with a popular audience as well.

His 2011 book, Thinking Fast and Slow, was a blockbuster bestseller.

Welcome to People I Mostly Admire, with Steve Levitt.

I'm at Danny Kahneman for the first time in 2009.

I was in New York City shortly after the release of Super Freakonomics to follow up to

Freakonomics.

And that book was proving to be quite controversial because of a chapter we'd written on climate

change.

Anyway, I was eating dinner in a New York City restaurant and completely by chance Danny

happened to be also dining there.

A mutual friend introduced us and I was shocked when Danny mentioned offhandedly that he

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