Kahneman was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for integrating insights from psychology into economics, especially concerning judgment and decision-making under uncertainty.

With Amos Tversky, he developed prospect theory (1979), a foundation of behavioral economics.

• His bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) summarized decades of his research on cognitive biases.

• He was a professor emeritus at Princeton University, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.