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We're your weekly look at the numbers in the news and in life.

I'm Charlotte McDonald.

One of our heroes or more or less died this week.

Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Memorial Prize for economics and he wasn't even

an economist. Not only that he wrote a best-selling book too, Thinking Fast and Slow. He came on our show and our presenter Tim

Hoffert has interviewed him many times. So when we wanted to talk to someone

about the importance of Carlaman's work, who better than our Tim?

Hello Charlotte.

I think we can all admit that Daniel Carnaman was one of the most important names in economics,

but he wasn't actually an economist, was he?

How did that happen? No, he was a psychologist. I would say he's one of the most important

social scientists of the last 50 years. He was incredibly influential and he with his long time collaborator Amos Tversky really asked fascinating questions about how the human mind works,

how we make decisions, how we form judgments, how we perceive our own happiness, how we think about probabilities.

And it turns out, although he was not an economist and I think not especially interested in economics it turns

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