| 1 | Mar 4, '19 | Under the Constitution, use of presidential authority to punish political enemies is an impeachable offense. That conclusion emerges from the ratification debates, and it can be tr | 10.4× | 0 | 1.9k | 760 | 25 |
| 2 | Mar 27, '24 | On a day of unfathomable grief, with the loss of Danny Kahneman, here's a happy moment. He was so, so, so happy when @R_Thaler got the Nobel. | 8.4× | 211k | 1.8k | 221 | 45 |
| 3 | Aug 21, '25 | Why I like Hayek, and the Austrians, less ambivalently than I once did. @lsolum | 8.0× | 203k | 353 | 80 | 155 |
| 4 | Apr 28, '21 | Our son just said, "Mommy is winning, 10-3!" @USAID @SamanthaJPower | 7.4× | 0 | 2.4k | 67 | 13 |
| 5 | Mar 31, '24 | A list of Danny Kahneman's papers on Google Scholar. Includes numerous hidden gems. My personal favorite, I think, remains Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (short, | 6.8× | 172k | 1.1k | 300 | 632 |
| 6 | Feb 20, '20 | A proposal: The Department of Justice should be made independent of the president. A year ago, I would have thought that this is a terrible idea, and I am not sure it is a good ide | 6.7× | 0 | 608 | 173 | 12 |
| 7 | Mar 27, '24 | An essay by @R_Thaler and yours truly on Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, his greatest collaborator. | 6.1× | 155k | 1.1k | 367 | 325 |
| 8 | Jul 13, '18 | Is it irrational to be a sports fan? Fascinating paper, showing that being a football (soccer) fan has big negative effects on people's happiness, because a loss causes a lot of su | 6.0× | 0 | 760 | 364 | 41 |
| 9 | Jan 11, '20 | Some exceptionally impressive achievements in India, on issues including cleanliness, public health, safety, and sex equality. @paramiyer_ @archnavyas @MamidiPavanH @SubramanianKri | 6.0× | 0 | 1.1k | 247 | 13 |
| 10 | May 16, '19 | Just published: If people disagree with other people's political views, they will not trust them - even on questions that have nothing to do with politics, and even when their answ | 5.7× | 0 | 821 | 357 | 85 |
| 11 | Oct 17, '19 | A very powerful statement from Admiral William McRaven. (I was privileged to serve with him on the Defense Innovation Board, and I never heard him utter a partisan word, not even i | 5.5× | 0 | 1.1k | 328 | 15 |
| 12 | Oct 9, '17 | Thrilling news re the great @R_Thaler - an unboundedly rational choice for the Nobel. An overview of his work: | 5.4× | 0 | 844 | 482 | 0 |
| 13 | Mar 27, '24 | A favorite quotation from Danny Kahneman: "Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it." (Except Danny.) | 5.2× | 131k | 1.6k | 300 | 208 |
| 14 | Mar 23, '21 | Mother and daughter, before confirmation hearing to head US AID @SamanthaJPower | 5.1× | 0 | 1.6k | 52 | 10 |
| 15 | Dec 26, '18 | Year-end applause to @QuilletteM and @clairlemon for independence of mind, concern with evidence, and (very important) wit & sense of humor. | 4.6× | 0 | 1.1k | 125 | 7 |
| 16 | Jul 14, '23 | In many places, @R_Thaler & I avoid claiming that people are "irrational." We often say that it is both false and not very nice to say that. Better to say that people are "boun | 4.4× | 112k | 436 | 84 | 39 |
| 17 | Mar 27, '24 | A cherished photo from the writing of NOISE, with Danny bemused and all-seeing. | 4.3× | 108k | 1k | 52 | 39 |
| 18 | May 4, '23 | Maybe so? #ButWhatAboutTheHusband | 4.1× | 103k | 288 | 15 | 20 |
| 19 | Mar 28, '24 | One of the many incredible things about Danny Kahneman: He was a joyful coauthor. Look at how many coauthors he had? His ideas often came from discussions. (When I was struggling t | 3.9× | 99k | 1.1k | 127 | 103 |
| 20 | Mar 21, '18 | Honored and thrilled to be embarking, with the great Daniel Kahneman and Olivier Sibony, on a new book, called NOISE, on human error and how to avoid it. Bears on business, governm | 3.9× | 0 | 830 | 195 | 7 |
| 21 | Feb 13, '16 | Devastated by Justice Scalia's death. One of the most important justices ever, a defender of the Rule of Law, and a truly wonderful person. | 3.5× | 0 | 469 | 338 | 0 |
| 22 | Mar 27, '24 | Hard to find words for the loss of Danny Kahneman. He had the most original mind I have ever known, & also the deepest. He could connect with others - truly, madly, deeply. Kno | 3.2× | 80k | 466 | 166 | 22 |
| 23 | Apr 17, '23 | Revised, draft cover of a new book (possibly my least bad book), forthcoming in just a few months from Cambridge University Press. | 3.1× | 79k | 387 | 56 | 30 |
| 24 | Jan 29, '17 | Impeaching the president - a primer (written long ago; many people are asking about this topic). | 3.1× | 0 | 402 | 285 | 1 |
| 25 | Mar 30, '24 | A memory from Danny Kahneman: When we were writing articles together and got stuck, he would ask, "What's our one-liner?" A way of ensuring clarity on our basic thesis. | 3.0× | 77k | 654 | 92 | 140 |
| 26 | Apr 8, '21 | NOISE, by Daniel Kahneman, @SibOliv, et al. - first copies have arrived. | 3.0× | 0 | 689 | 86 | 34 |
| 27 | Dec 18, '24 | Likely cover of a new book, coming from Oxford University Press, likely in May. Widely said to be "the one book you need to read, if you want to have a happy, fun-filled life, with | 2.9× | 74k | 864 | 175 | 533 |
| 28 | Sep 25, '18 | In praise of Beto O'Rourke, who is full of grace. @BetoORourke @SamanthaJPower @jonfavs | 2.9× | 0 | 631 | 143 | 7 |
| 29 | Nov 4, '20 | A lot of anxious, scared, sleep-deprived people out there. A good time for small acts of kindness and generosity, and a good time to avoid harshness and anything like savagery. (Ob | 2.7× | 0 | 704 | 98 | 1 |
| 30 | Sep 1, '20 | Conversation with my 8 year old daughter yesterday: She: "When did you first get a cell phone, Daddy?" Me: "When I was an adult. When I was a kid, we didn't have them." She (astoni | 2.7× | 0 | 787 | 47 | 3 |
| 31 | Aug 6, '18 | Meeting with representatives of a foreign government, to obtain information on a political opponent, is not merely a scandal. It is a betrayal of our country. @jonfavs | 2.6× | 0 | 503 | 175 | 8 |
| 32 | Jul 11, '18 | For those interested in rationality and its limits, Edna Ullmann-Margalit's Normal Rationality repays careful reading - relevant to law, politics, consumption, daily life. (And the | 2.6× | 0 | 474 | 124 | 71 |
| 33 | Aug 10, '24 | Important paper: People remember stories a lot better than they remember statistics. @PowerUSAID @PiperPerabo | 2.5× | 64k | 316 | 112 | 152 |
| 34 | Nov 14, '16 | Must reading (as in, MUST reading): Michael Lewis on Kahneman and Tversky. Fun, inspiring, in some ways surreal. | 2.5× | 0 | 445 | 182 | 1 |
| 35 | Feb 15, '18 | The Second Amendment does not bar sensible gun control laws; its misuse in politics is a disgrace. | 2.5× | 0 | 453 | 171 | 1 |
| 36 | Sep 16, '20 | Cover . . . revealed. | 2.5× | 0 | 575 | 74 | 36 |
| 37 | Jan 12, '25 | A note of applause & thanks to people who have kept Hayek and Austrian economics in view, including @PeterBoettke @Kaleidicworld @FriedrichHayek Bruce Caldwell; there are many | 2.4× | 62k | 344 | 83 | 43 |
| 38 | Apr 13, '18 | New paper: EPISTEMIC SPILLOVERS. Key finding: When people share other people's political views, they trust them on issues that have zero to do with politics, even when they have go | 2.4× | 0 | 366 | 176 | 12 |
| 39 | Nov 16, '20 | Coming in May, from Daniel Kahneman, @SibOliv, and a lucky third author. All sorts of new thinking about cognitive biases & especially noise (the uncharted country), & what | 2.4× | 0 | 507 | 71 | 44 |
| 40 | Oct 29, '18 | President Trump's vicious, hateful rhetoric increases the risk of violence. (Note: It is no rebuttal to this claim to point to hateful rhetoric by others, including his opponents. | 2.3× | 0 | 389 | 176 | 4 |
| 41 | Dec 13, '19 | Alexander Hamilton, on impeachment trials in the Senate: "Where else than in the Senate could have been found a tribunal sufficiently dignified, or sufficiently independent?" (The | 2.2× | 0 | 417 | 115 | 7 |
| 42 | May 1, '24 | Shhhh, shhhh, don't tell a soul, deep secret, coming in early 2025 from @mitpress @JosephEStiglitz @BillGates @DLeonhardt | 2.1× | 54k | 335 | 69 | 72 |
| 43 | Oct 7, '18 | The supremacy of law is a precious achievement. The shift in the composition of the Supreme Court does not endanger it. | 2.1× | 0 | 319 | 137 | 6 |
| 44 | Feb 9, '25 | Algorithmic Harm - new book, coming from @OUPAcademic in a few months. @jonfavs @JTasioulas @Econ_4_Everyone @aimeemann @Thobava @ProfEricJohnson | 2.1× | 52k | 639 | 154 | 429 |
| 45 | Jul 9, '19 | "Are you sure you want to post this?" - smart, behaviorally informed nudge from Instagram, designed to reduce online bullying. Could have a real impact. @R_Thaler | 2.1× | 0 | 348 | 148 | 7 |
| 46 | Jul 24, '20 | Extraordinary speech from @AOC. Whether you are right or left of center, this is very moving & very important. (And please don't call it a "thrashing" or a "comeback"; it is mu | 2.0× | 0 | 499 | 86 | 6 |
| 47 | Sep 2, '17 | News: Judge Richard Posner has apparently resigned from the bench. He's probably the most influential legal thinker over the last 50 years. | 2.0× | 0 | 263 | 188 | 0 |
| 48 | Apr 7, '24 | Worth reading or rereading: The Undoing Project, about Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky, by the amazing Michael Lewis. It's astonishingly good, and hilarious, and quite moving. | 2.0× | 50k | 389 | 62 | 98 |
| 49 | Mar 18, '19 | Completely devastated by the death of Alan Krueger. He was an amazing colleague and friend, kind and generous, and full of a kind of joyful energy at figuring out what is true. A t | 1.9× | 0 | 519 | 63 | 0 |
| 50 | Aug 16, '20 | NOISE, a new book by Daniel Kahneman, @SibOliv, and yours truly, seems to be on track for 2021. Here's a photo from pre-Zoom days. @tylercowen @AnnieDuke @m_sendhil | 1.9× | 0 | 475 | 48 | 20 |
| 51 | Nov 28, '19 | On Thanksgiving eve, I am in the midst of reading Impeach by @neal_katyal - it is exceptionally clear, astoundingly up-to-date, excellent and learned on the Constitution, and very | 1.9× | 0 | 454 | 82 | 1 |
| 52 | Aug 8, '20 | Optimal Taxation With Behavioral Agents - a magnificent 2020 paper by the late Emmanuel Farhi and Xavier Gabaix (one of the most important behavioral economics papers in recent yea | 1.9× | 0 | 281 | 76 | 97 |
| 53 | Jan 7, '21 | Senator Lindsey Graham is absolutely nailing some of the legal issues here. A salute to him. | 1.8× | 0 | 442 | 34 | 6 |
| 54 | Jan 20, '21 | Quite a day. Full of hope. @SamanthaJPower | 1.8× | 0 | 569 | 18 | 0 |
| 55 | Jul 20, '19 | An economist friend in the White House, 10 years ago: "At my university, when people would ask me an economics question, I would answer, and they would say, 'Thank you.' In governm | 1.7× | 0 | 438 | 63 | 4 |
| 56 | Jul 31, '24 | Kahneman: "Irrational is a strong word, which connotes impulsivity, emotionality, and a stubborn resistance to reasonable argument. I often cringe when my work with Amos is credite | 1.7× | 44k | 461 | 125 | 105 |
| 57 | Nov 13, '17 | The criminal, at the scene of the crime. My dog, after stealing, chewing, and destroying my administrative law casebook. #Unabashed | 1.7× | 0 | 360 | 47 | 0 |
| 58 | Nov 30, '20 | Daniel Kahneman, @SibOliv, & I turned in a complete, final version of this book today. All thanks to the first two authors for an inspiring, incredible journey, and to the edit | 1.7× | 0 | 365 | 37 | 26 |
| 59 | Oct 23, '19 | Astonishing that a former Attorney General would say, in the context of impeachment, that "abuse of power is not a crime." Hamilton DEFINED impeachable offenses as "the abuse or vi | 1.7× | 0 | 333 | 101 | 2 |
| 60 | Apr 29, '21 | A new Administrator for @USAID | 1.7× | 0 | 497 | 31 | 3 |
| 61 | Jun 4, '18 | No, the president cannot pardon himself. Discussed here: | 1.7× | 0 | 319 | 98 | 3 |
| 62 | Nov 27, '20 | Many people are misreading the Sup Court's decision on the pandemic & New York. It's a narrow ruling, about neutrality & discrimination; it doesn't break major new ground; | 1.7× | 0 | 295 | 76 | 14 |
| 63 | Dec 13, '21 | A truly historic Executive Order will be signed today by President Biden. #SludgeReduction #ImprovedChoiceArchitecture @R_Thaler @LiamDelaney2020 @PowerUSAID @dilipsoman @AMSchneid | 1.7× | 0 | 303 | 89 | 16 |
| 64 | Apr 21, '21 | First copies just arrived! @lbsparkbooks @SibOliv @ArabellaPike @WmCollinsBooks | 1.6× | 0 | 412 | 45 | 15 |
| 65 | Jan 7, '19 | Precious words from the great Daniel Kahneman, a terrific slogan for life: "It’s an empirical matter. It’s not a matter of thinking." (Almost as good is his next sentence: "And I d | 1.6× | 0 | 280 | 107 | 23 |
| 66 | Feb 23, '19 | Highly interesting and illuminating discussion of five books on capitalism and human nature, by the great @RobertJShiller. Numerous valuable insights, perhaps especially about empa | 1.6× | 0 | 270 | 95 | 39 |
| 67 | Aug 17, '20 | In 2017, I was hit by a car while walking home on a snowy night. I was badly injured (& could easily have been killed). When I woke up in the hospital, the first person who cal | 1.6× | 0 | 454 | 34 | 4 |
| 68 | Jul 31, '19 | A behaviorally informed supermarket, designed to promote healthy choices. | 1.6× | 0 | 264 | 103 | 19 |
| 69 | Apr 17, '20 | Trump's clampdown on health, safety, and environmental regulation has produced thousands of unnecessary deaths. @genebsperling @jasonfurman @JustinWolfers @BetseyStevenson @jonfavs | 1.5× | 0 | 227 | 120 | 7 |
| 70 | Oct 8, '19 | "In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. . . . There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. . . . Always, at every moment, | 1.5× | 0 | 331 | 83 | 2 |
| 71 | May 24, '20 | "Seen from the viewpoint of politics, truth has a despotic character. It is therefore hated by tyrants, who rightly fear the competition of a coercive force they cannot monopolize. | 1.5× | 0 | 308 | 96 | 6 |
| 72 | Jul 28, '19 | Are apologies effective, for politicians and public figures? Recent surveys suggest that they make things worse. | 1.5× | 0 | 271 | 75 | 15 |
| 73 | Feb 14, '21 | Just arrived today! Bound galleys! @SibOliv @WmCollinsBooks @lbsparkbooks | 1.5× | 0 | 378 | 31 | 23 |
| 74 | Jul 9, '20 | On President Trump's taxes, the Supreme Court delivered. @GlobeOpinion @BostonGlobe @neal_katyal | 1.5× | 0 | 333 | 70 | 9 |
| 75 | Oct 13, '19 | Can It Happen Here? On the collapse of norms and the rise of authoritarianism. | 1.5× | 0 | 240 | 94 | 11 |
| 76 | Apr 27, '21 | Just received this terrific book, edited by Ralph Hertwig and Christophe Engel - some fascinating and important essays on an increasingly urgent topic. @mitpress | 1.5× | 0 | 331 | 53 | 31 |
| 77 | Apr 18, '19 | On obstruction, the Mueller Report is a bit like a mystery novel - here's an effort to explain the most important and the most puzzling part. @R_Thaler @jonfavs | 1.4× | 0 | 273 | 80 | 14 |
| 78 | Dec 27, '20 | We are putting the final touches on NOISE, forthcoming next year. A multi-year project, with pathbreaking insights from Daniel Kahneman and @SibOliv - the third author feels lucky | 1.4× | 0 | 336 | 44 | 20 |
| 79 | Mar 20, '21 | Years in the making . . . | 1.4× | 0 | 361 | 26 | 15 |
| 80 | Jul 14, '20 | A book, coming in 2021 from @yalepress, with an unusual cover. | 1.3× | 0 | 337 | 39 | 11 |
| 81 | Nov 25, '20 | Okay, I'll walk the dogs, then. | 1.3× | 0 | 410 | 4 | 3 |
| 82 | May 23, '19 | Maybe there should be a congressional investigation? (How much longer can we bear not knowing?) | 1.3× | 0 | 357 | 25 | 4 |
| 83 | Sep 28, '19 | Impeachment: a citizen's guide (written without reference to the current president; about the history and the legal standards). | 1.2× | 0 | 252 | 73 | 10 |
| 84 | Jun 25, '20 | News from @Harvard_Law: We are launching a new journal, on law and equality, to be helmed by Randall Kennedy, Martha Minow, & yours truly, with a board of editors TBD. Submissi | 1.2× | 0 | 279 | 51 | 9 |
| 85 | Aug 10, '20 | Just arrived: first copies of TOO MUCH INFORMATION. (Too scared to look inside/don't want to know if there are mistakes, but the first chapters explore what people want to know, eg | 1.2× | 0 | 269 | 37 | 20 |
| 86 | Mar 29, '24 | Daniel Kahneman: "Moral intuitions operate in much the same way as other intuitions do; what marks the moral domain as distinctive is its foundations in the emotions, beliefs, and | 1.2× | 30k | 278 | 56 | 55 |
| 87 | Oct 22, '17 | Hey @R_Thaler, Nudge is back on the bestseller list (no thanks to second author). #WonderWhy #NobelNudge | 1.1× | 0 | 270 | 48 | 0 |
| 88 | Jan 4, '20 | Daniel Kahneman, @SibOliv, and yours truly, hard at work on our forthcoming book, NOISE (lots of progress in 2019). | 1.1× | 0 | 291 | 30 | 4 |
| 89 | May 8, '21 | Photograph of the new Administrator of @USAID, taken by a sensational (and modest) photographer, on her first day in office. @PowerUSAID | 1.1× | 0 | 352 | 11 | 0 |
| 90 | Aug 14, '18 | This is hardly the worst of it, but why on earth does the President of the United States call people "dogs" when he wants to insult them? #RememberFala #MansBestFriend #Civility | 1.1× | 0 | 261 | 38 | 0 |
| 91 | May 7, '17 | Congressman Joe Kennedy is the most impressive young politician in the USA - pragmatic, immensely knowledgeable, & with a firm moral sense. | 1.1× | 0 | 232 | 62 | 0 |
| 92 | Mar 27, '24 | Noise, by Daniel Kahneman et al. (On this day, on every day: My favorite part is Chapter 11, which is all DK.) | 1.1× | 27k | 449 | 48 | 57 |
| 93 | Jan 13, '25 | On the use of large language models to solve prediction and estimation problems - amazing paper by @m_sendhil and colleagues. @tylercowen | 1.1× | 27k | 292 | 77 | 206 |
| 94 | Oct 11, '24 | The World Bank is doing some truly extraordinary work in the area of behavioral science. @bjerde_anna @WorldBank @zeina_afif | 1.0× | 25k | 290 | 81 | 176 |
| 95 | Jul 29, '25 | This book is fantastically good and clarifies a lot (a lot a lot a lot). Book of the year candidate. @R_Thaler @tylercowen | 1.0× | 25k | 380 | 61 | 300 |
| 96 | Apr 21, '19 | There's so much unkindness, cruelty, and meanness on Twitter, even on Easter Sunday. This is better. | 1.0× | 0 | 290 | 17 | 0 |
| 97 | Sep 30, '20 | My dog Snow, immediately after the presidential debate. @SamanthaJPower | 1.0× | 0 | 291 | 19 | 0 |
| 98 | Feb 1, '21 | Hey @SamanthaJPower, this is great, really great, but who's walking the dogs? | 0.9× | 0 | 272 | 14 | 8 |
| 99 | Feb 18, '19 | Spotted, somewhere. (Okay, it's my daughter, but still.) #Precocious #OrJustLoyalToDad | 0.9× | 0 | 272 | 9 | 1 |
| 100 | Nov 19, '18 | I was privileged to work with Admiral Bill McRaven. He is a true American hero. Every one of us should honor him, and his remarkable service. | 0.9× | 0 | 213 | 40 | 0 |
| 101 | Aug 30 | New book: THE PRICE OF HAPPINESS. Just out, now available. | 0.2× | 5.7k | 26 | 3 | 7 |
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