SUMMARY OF ECONS AND HUMANS. Kahneman made infrequent mentions of “econs and humans” so I do not emphasize them in my book summary. Here’s the gist of his complaint. Economists (“the Chicago school”) operate on the assumption that consumers are rational (“internally consistent,” “logically coherent,” “adhering to rules of logic,” page 411) and always will do the rational thing. If not, that’s their loss