Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1934.  Kahneman received ½ the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty.”  At the time he won the Nobel Prize, he was a Professor at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. 

Kahneman split the 2002 prize with Vernon L. Smith of George Mason University “for having established laboratory experiments as a tool in empirical economic analysis, especially in the study of alternative market mechanisms.”   For more information on the Nobel Prize, please visit nobelprize.org.

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