Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, …
Sustein and a collaborator, the jurist Timor Kuran, invented a name for the mechanism through which biases flow into policy: the availability cascade.
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An availability cascade is a self-sustaining chain of events, which may start from media reports of a relatively minor event and lead up to public panic and large-scale government action.
— Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman (Page 142)