Kahneman and Tversky on their Prospect Theory

You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”

— Amos Tversky

One very important result of Kahneman and Tversky[‘s] work is demonstrating that people’s attitudes toward risks concerning gains may be quite different from their attitudes toward risks concerning losses.

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