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Hi everyone it's Meghna here with a special from the Archives podcast drop from On Point.

Daniel Kahneman, one of the world's most celebrated economists, died this week at the age of 90. The Nobel Prize

winner was one of the pioneers in a field that later became known as

behavioral economics. His groundbreaking work showed that human intuitive reasoning is flawed in

predictable ways, the predictability being the breakthrough.

Kahneman was also author of Thinking Fast and Slow, a highly influential book that debunked a long

cherished belief in economics that humans are rational actors.

His work, along with others, showed both qualitatively and quantitatively that no matter how much economists want to believe it, human decision-making is not a rationally driven process.

Kahneman was also a Holocaust survivor.

His family was forced to wear the Yellow Star of David

in occupied France before their escape.

He later frequently said that his experience of

the Holocaust was one of the things that drove his powerful interest in

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