Biography
Daniel Kahneman — econ (nobel) with roots in the Russian Empire
Daniel Kahneman, born 1934 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli-American psychologist who won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for integrating psychological insight into decision theory.
"Parents emigrated from Vilna, Lithuania (Russian Empire) to Mandatory Palestine in the 1920s–30s."
Migration storyRussian Connection
Tracing the roots — Lithuania / France
Kahneman's parents, Efrayim and Rachel, were Lithuanian Jews from Vilna — a city that was part of the Russian Empire. That world of Jewish intellectual life shaped the family he was born into, even as he came of age far from it.
The father of Behavioral Economics.
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Origin
Lithuania / France🇷🇺 Russian Empire
Historical context
Russian Empire · c. 1721–1917
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Lithuania / France. At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
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Key Achievements
A career defined by ambition
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Nobel Prize in Economics 2002
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Developed Prospect Theory with Amos Tversky
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Presidential Medal of Freedom 2013
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Author of Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)
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Pioneer of behavioral economics
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