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In occupied Paris around 1941, a Jewish boy of seven or eight walked home after the curfew with his sweater turned inside out to hide the Star of David. An SS soldier picked him up, hugged him, showed him a photograph of a boy and gave him money. Daniel Kahneman later said the encounter convinced him that people are endlessly complicated and interesting. With Amos Tversky he spent his career showing how human judgement departs from rational choice, work recognised with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002. Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) set out two modes of thought, one fast and intuitive, one slow and deliberate; Noise followed in 2021. He died on 27 March 2024, aged 90. The ten writers below share his subject: how people actually decide, and why they so often get it wrong.
By Lisanne Swart · 10 authors · Psychology · Decision-making · Updated October 2026
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The closest matches are Michael Lewis, whose The Undoing Project tells the story of Kahneman and Tversky’s partnership, Richard Thaler, who worked with them at Stanford and took their ideas into economics, and Philip Tetlock, who measured how well experts predict the future. Further down is a German psychologist who argues that many so-called biases are sensible responses to an uncertain world.
10 authors like Daniel Kahneman
Where to start if you loved Daniel Kahneman
If you want the story behind the book, read Michael Lewis.
The Undoing Project (2016): Kahneman and Tversky’s partnership, and how it ended.
If you want the economics, read Richard Thaler.
Misbehaving (2015): how psychology changed economics, told by one of the people who changed it.
If you want the counter-argument, read Gerd Gigerenzer.
Gut Feelings (2007): why rules of thumb are often smarter than they look.
If you want to get better at judgement, read Philip Tetlock.
Superforecasting (2015): the habits of people who predict the future unusually well.
If you want more Kahneman, start with Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Then Noise (2021), written with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein, on the unwanted variation in human judgement.
Frequently asked questions about authors like Daniel Kahneman
Who writes like Daniel Kahneman?
Michael Lewis, Richard Thaler and Philip Tetlock are the closest: Lewis tells the story of Kahneman’s partnership with Tversky, Thaler took the ideas into economics, and Tetlock measured expert judgement. Gerd Gigerenzer and Gary Klein argue with parts of his work.
What should I read after Thinking, Fast and Slow?
Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project (2016) for the people behind the ideas, and Gerd Gigerenzer’s Gut Feelings (2007) for the case that intuition is often wiser than Kahneman allows.
Does Daniel Kahneman have a new book?
No. Kahneman died on 27 March 2024, aged 90, and his last book was Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (2021), written with Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein.
Is Thinking, Fast and Slow still reliable?
Mostly, but not all of it. Its chapter on priming relied on small studies that later failed to replicate, and in 2017 Kahneman wrote that he had placed too much faith in underpowered studies.
Is Daniel Kahneman like Malcolm Gladwell?
They cover some of the same ground, but Kahneman is the researcher and Gladwell the storyteller. Blink celebrates snap judgements; Thinking, Fast and Slow shows in detail when they mislead.
Which Daniel Kahneman book should I read first?
Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) is the place to start. Noise (2021) is the follow-up.
Sources
- Daniel Kahneman — Wikipedia
- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist and Author, Dies at 90 — Publishers Weekly
- Reconstruction of a Train Wreck: How Priming Research Went off the Rails (with Kahneman’s reply) — Replicability-Index
- Gerd Gigerenzer — Wikipedia
List last reviewed 31 October 2026.
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