Daniel Kahneman
1934 – 2024 · Israel · Economics, Psychology
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 2002
Prospect theory founded behavioural economics and modern policy 'nudging'.
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Who shaped Daniel Kahneman, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- John von Neumann
1903 – 1957 · Mathematics, Computing
Expected-utility axioms are exactly the rationality Kahneman and Tversky tested and broke.
Passed the work to1
- Esther Duflo
1972 · Economics
Behavioural findings shape the design of development experiments and their nudges.
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Nearby in the annals
Adam Smith
1723 – 1790The Wealth of Nations founded economics as a discipline.
David Ricardo
1772 – 1823Comparative advantage and rent theory — still the core argument for trade.
John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946Argued governments should spend in a slump — and every modern state now does.