MajorNew York TimesbestsellerWinner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012Selected by theNew York Times Book Reviewas one of the best books of 2011AGlobe and MailBest Books of the Year 2011 TitleOne ofThe Economist’s 2011 Books of the YearOne ofThe Wall Street Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year 20112013 Presidential Medal of Freedom RecipientIn the international bestseller,Thinking, Fast and Slow,Daniel Kahneman, the renowned psychologist and winner of the NobelPrize in Economics, takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind andexplains the two systems that drive the way we think. System 1 is fast,intuitive, and emotional; System 2 is slower, more deliberative, andmore logical. The impact of overconfidence on corporate strategies, thedifficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, theprofound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stockmarket to planning our next vacation—each of these can be understoodonly by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions.Engagingthe reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahnemanreveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tapinto the benefits of slow thinking. He offers practical and enlighteninginsights into how choices are made in both our business and ourpersonal lives—and how we can use different techniques to guard againstthe mental glitches that often get us into trouble. Winner of theNational Academy of Sciences Best Book Award and the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize and selected byThe New York Times Book Reviewas one of the ten best books of 2011,Thinking, Fast and Slowis destined to be a classic.