Barry Ritholtz, Columnist

Michael Lewis' Portrait of Two Men Who Changed the World

Michael Lewis' latest book profiles psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky and the advent of behavioral economics.

December 5, 2016 at 6:06 PM UTC

By Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, and was previously chief market strategist at Maxim Group. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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Michael Lewis is the poet laureate of the financial world. Each of his deeply researched, beautifully composed books causes a stir when published. Recall the brouhaha that erupted when Lewis, discussing his 2014 book, "Flash Boys" on "60 Minutes," said that markets are rigged.

Lewis’ newest book, "The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds," (excerpt here) is a very different work from earlier Lewis writings. Its subject is two academics, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman -- their backgrounds, how they met and how two wildly different personalities became a singular brain to “undo” our misunderstanding of how the human mind operates.