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From: The Wall Street Journal

Watch the Influence of ‘Prospect Theory’ Grow

The Wall Street Journal:

You’ve been hearing a bit about Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist and Nobel laureate, recently, thanks to the publication of his new book, “Thinking, Fast and Slow.”

This graphic illustrates how the influence of the most famous paper by Kahneman and his frequent collaborator, Amos Tversky, “Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision Under Risk,” spread after its publication, in Econometrica, in 1979. According to data from Thomson Reuters, the paper was cited 778 times in 2009 alone, in 504 papers and books. From the humanities to computer science, there are few fields that have not embraced the paper.

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