Thursday, January 13, 2011

How Marvelous Collaboration Can Be (Redux)

"Contrary to the old laws of information theory, it was common for us to find that more information was received than had been sent. I have almost never had that experience with anyone else. If you have not had it, you don't know how marvelous collaboration can be ..."
That is from a post I did sometime back.  It is a quote by Daniel Kahneman talking about his work with Amos Tversky.  I was reminded of this yesterday when talking to Michael Woolcock about his collaboration with Lant Pritchett - in preparation for an interview about a paper Michael recently wrote with Lant.  I will post the interview in the next couple of days, and I think you will like it.