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Autobiography

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  • Kahneman, Daniel

    (Princeton University)

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I was born in Tel Aviv, in what is now Israel, in 1934, while my mother was visiting her extended family there; our regular domicile was in Paris. My parents were Lithuanian Jews, who had immigrated to France in the early 1920s and had done quite well. My father was the chief of research in a large chemical factory. But although my parents loved most things French and had some French friends, their roots in France were shallow, and they never felt completely secure. Of course, whatever vestiges of security they'd had were lost when the Germans swept into France in 1940. What was probably the first graph I ever drew, in 1941, showed my family's fortunes as a function of time - and around 1940 the curve crossed into the negative domain.

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  • Kahneman, Daniel, 2003. "Autobiography," Nobel Prize in Economics documents 2002-3, Nobel Prize Committee.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:nobelp:2002_003
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    behavioral economics; experimental economics;

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    • C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General

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