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Michael Lewis is a columnist for Bloomberg View and a contributor to Vanity Fair. He is the author of several books, The Un-Doing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds.
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The research behind our horrible decision-making In decision-making framing is everything, and author Michael Lewis can tell us why it is we humans are so bad at acting rationally. Best known as the author of Moneyball and The Big Short, Lewis has a new book on how our minds work that’s told through the lens of the friendship between two Israeli psychologists who pioneered the science of decision-making. Lewis calls The Undoing Project "a love story without the sex."
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