by Gerd Gigerenzer
Gigerenzer argues that most people are not irrational but risk-illiterate, and that simple rules of thumb plus clear statistics (natural frequencies, not conditional probabilities) can make doctors, investors, and citizens dramatically better decision-makers. He pushes back on the prevailing biases-and-nudges view, championing fast-and-frugal heuristics as the real engine of smart choice under uncertainty.
In this collection, Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions references 4 other books.
It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nudge and The Black Swan.
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Engages critically with Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow, disputing the heuristics-and-biases framing and arguing that simple heuristics are rational under uncertainty
Contests Thaler and Sunstein's Nudge paternalism, advocating risk literacy and transparent statistics as an alternative to choice architecture
Cites Taleb's The Black Swan on unknown unknowns to distinguish risk (known probabilities) from genuine uncertainty where heuristics outperform
References Ariely's Predictably Irrational when disputing the blanket claim that humans are systematically irrational about risk
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