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Part I (Introduction - Chapter 2)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Lewis, Michael. The Undoing Project. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2017.

• This book was written from the third person perspective and in the past tense.

• In the Introduction, The Problem That Never Goes Away, Lewis recalled how he wrote a book called Moneyball in 2003, a non-fiction work detailing how the baseball team the Oakland Athletics used a new algorithmic system for picking better players.

• Lewis received a response to his book Moneyball from a pair of well-known academics, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, who told him the principles the Oakland Athletics based their new system on was actually explored by two famous psychologists decades earlier - Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.

• From Thaler's and Sunstein's response to Moneyball, Lewis formed a new topic for the book that was to become...

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