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Start the Week: Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff

Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff

17/03/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff

Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Kahneman, Michael Ignatieff, Henry Marsh and Lisa Appignanesi.

Tom Sutcliffe looks at decision-making with Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, former politician Michael Ignatieff, brain surgeon Henry Marsh and writer Lisa Appignanesi.

Tom Sutcliffe discusses how we make decisions with the Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Moral choices in politics can be a complicated business, according to the academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff, who explores whether the age of international intervention is over. Doctors work under the oath 'do no harm', but the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh says the decision whether to operate on a brain is rarely that simple. High emotion can cloud your judgement and the writer Lisa Appignanesi looks back at sensational crimes of passion to ask how far the perpetrators were responsible for their actions.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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