Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman (; ; born March 5, 1934) is an Israeli-American psychologist and economist. He won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (shared with Vernon L. Smith). He won the Nobel Prize for studying economics by using tools from psychology. 
In 2011, he was named by "Foreign Policy" magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In the same year, his book "Thinking, Fast and Slow", which summarizes much of his research, was published and became a best seller.