It leaves a bit the impression of Amos being a rather unpleasant power-hungry person, letting no one beside him come up. Was he known for being supporive to his students even when they challenged him?
"Amos wrote an article, addressed directly to economists, to repair technical flaws in prospect theory. "Advances in Prospect Theory," it was called, and though Amos did much of the work on it with his graduate student Rich Gonzalez, it ran as a journal article by Danny and Amos. "Amos said that it had always been Kahneman and Tversky, and that this had to be Kahneman and Tversky, and that it would be really strange to add a third person to it," said Gonzalez."
...would piss the crap out of me, if I were the student.
Edit: Reading more about them,my perception is that Amos was like the "rock star" programmer who can do great things, but who is impossible to work with.
Amos not crediting his student is unforgivable.
The best way I can describe it is that Amos was very devoted to a process. The way Lewis tells the story, what haunted Danny was the very thing that Amos and Danny both worked on - self-doubt because of perception.
It seems at least that Lewis has as a goal making Amos out to be kind, but rigorous. Daniel simply suffered deeply crippling self-doubt. He did not want to release "Thinking.." because he was convinced it would destroy his reputation.
My primary source is here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?419485-1/michael-lewis-discuss...