We have a bonus episode for you this week. I just wish there was a happier reason for it.

My good friend Daniel Kahneman passed away recently and like so many others, I'll miss him dearly.

As a small tribute to Danny, we're replaying an episode I did with him back in 2021.

Listening back over it, it does capture so much of what was special and unique about Danny.

I'll warn you in advance that the sound quality is not great. We were just coming

out of COVID and Danny taped the conversation in his apartment

while his partner went about her daily routines in the background.

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.

Incredibly, of all the research favors ever written in the social sciences,

Danny and his co-author Amos Tversky 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 Lovett.

I met Danny Kahneman for the first time in 2009. I was in New York City shortly after the release of Super Freakonomics, the follow-up to Freakonomics.

And that book was proving to be quite controversial because of a chapter we had written on climate change.

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