Nobel-winning economist Daniel Kahneman dies at 90


JERUSALEM, March 27 (Xinhua) -- Daniel Kahneman, an Israeli-American cognitive psychologist and Nobel laureate in economics, has died at the age of 90, local media reported on Wednesday.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog said in a statement, "We lost one of the brightest minds we have known," adding that Kahneman's research has made history and changed the way humanity perceives reality, bringing great pride to Israel and the Jewish people as a whole.

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