Economists

Daniel Kahneman

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Economics Atlas. "Daniel Kahneman." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-economics.interactiveatlas.org/economists/daniel-kahneman.

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Economics Atlas. (n.d.). Daniel Kahneman. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-economics.interactiveatlas.org/economists/daniel-kahneman

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@misc{economicsatlas-daniel-kahneman,
  author = {Economics Atlas},
  title = {Daniel Kahneman},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-economics.interactiveatlas.org/economists/daniel-kahneman},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist who shared the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Vernon L. Smith for integrating insights from psychology into economics, particularly regarding human judgment and decision making under uncertainty. With Amos Tversky, Kahneman developed prospect theory, one of the most cited frameworks in economics, describing how people actually evaluate potential gains and losses rather than how a purely rational actor would. His 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow brought this research to a wide public audience and helped establish behavioral economics as a major field within the discipline.

Facts

Birth Year

1934 1

Death Year

2024 1

Nationality

Israeli-American 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Amos Tversky

Their first direct edge to each other on this atlas; both already carry a shared associated-with-school edge to Behavioral Economics and a shared attributed-to edge from Loss Aversion, but nothing joined them directly until now. Co-developed prospect theory (1979) and shared the 2002 Nobel work.

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