Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman

May 19, 2004, 4:30pm

Donald P. Jacobs Center,

Owen L. Coon Forum

The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture series was established by her family, colleagues, and friends in tribute to her memory. The lectures present issues of fundamental importance in current economic theory.
Nancy L. Schwartz: A dedicated scholar and teacher, Nancy Schwartz was the Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences, the Kellogg School's first woman faculty member appointed to an endowed chair. She joined Kellogg in 1970, chaired the Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, and served as director of the school's doctoral program until her death in 1981. Unwavering in her dedication to academic excellence, she published more than 40 papers and co-authored two books. At the time of her death she was associate editor of Econometrica, on the board of editors of the American Economic Review, and on the governing councils of the American Economic Association and the Institute of Management Sciences.
This year's lecture will be presented by Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. The topic is Psychology and Behavioral Economics. All are invited to attend the lecture which is on Wednesday, May 19, 4:30 p.m., at Northwestern's Evanston campus in the Jacobs Center, Leverone Hall, Owen L. Coon Forum, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois. (Check this page for time or room changes.)
Contact Susan Neff, Center for Strategic Decision Making, for additional information or to confirm your invitation.
Lectures through 1997 have been published by Cambridge University Press: Frontiers of Research in Economic Theory: The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lectures, 1983 - 1997 (edited by Donald P. Jacobs, Ehud Kalai and Morton I. Kamien) in the series of Econometric Society Monographs (ISBN 0521635381).
Daniel Kahneman is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and professor of public affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He holds a BA in Psychology from the Hebrew University (1954) and a PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley (1961).
Previous positions include Hebrew University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge, University of British Columbia, and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the recipient of numerous awards, prizes, honorary degrees and other recognitions. A past president of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of many prestigious academies and learned societies.
In addition to the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Warren Medal of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Hilgard Award for Career Contributions to General Psychology, Professor Kahneman was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty." he argued that people think in terms of gains and losses, but, in the short-term especially, fear loss much more than they value gain.