Daniel Kahneman - Honors and Awards

Honors and Awards

• In 2002, Kahneman received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, despite being a research psychologist, for his work in Prospect theory. Kahneman states he has never taken a single economics course – that everything that he knows of the subject he and Tversky learned from their collaborators Richard Thaler and Jack Knetsch.

• Kahneman, co-recipient with Amos Tversky, earned the 2003 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.

• In 2005, he was voted the 101st-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

• In 2007, he was presented with the American Psychological Association's Award for Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology.

• On November 6, 2009, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the department of Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In his acceptance speech Kahneman said, "when you live long enough, you see the impossible become reality." He was referring to the fact that he would never have expected to be honored as an economist when he started his studies into what would become Behavioral Economics.

• In both 2011 and 2012, he made the Bloomberg 50 most influential people in global finance.

• On November 9, 2011, he was awarded the Talcott Parsons Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. To see his lecture, click the link below.

• His book, Thinking, Fast and Slow was the winner of the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Current Interest.

• In 2012 he was accepted as corresponding academician at the Real Academia Española (Economic and Financial Sciences).