The Empire of Error

When The Empire of Error was published in 2007, only a handful of people had heard of cognitive biases. Obviously, this idea was well known to some academics, but it remained under wraps, including in the world of research and even among the general public.The sociologist Raymond Bodon, who ran the social science group at PUF, is one of those who introduced the concept to France. It turns out that in this particular group emerged the empire of error that you hold in your hands. None of this owes much to chance. Since the publication of his 1986 book Ideology or the Origin of Inherited Ideas, Raymond Bowdon has already cited the still-secret works of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, while the book that will serve as a reference on these topics(Co-edited by Tversky, Kahneman and Slovich, Judging Under Uncertainty: The Guidance of Inference and Prejudice) Just published in 1982 in Cambridge University Press.