Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist who revolutionized the economy, dies. He was someone so influential that he won the Nobel Prize in Economics without ever having studied a subject in this discipline.
His work influences seemingly unrelated fields. We talk about everything from how we behave in diplomatic negotiations to medical negligence. He is even famous for his analysis of the behavior of baseball players, which he studied with Stanford cognitive psychologist Amos Tversky. The media and influential psychologist Steven Pinker defined him a few years ago as the "most influential psychologist in the world"