Sendhil Mullainathan is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His real passion is behavioral economics, understanding what makes people tick - whether a senior executive in New York or a farmer in rural Tamil Nadu.
He enjoys having written but is of a mixed mind about writing.
He also occasionally enjoys doing: he helped co-found a non-profit to apply behavioral science (ideas42); and has worked in government.
Much to the surprise of who know him well, he is a recipient of the MacArthur "genius" award.
His hobbies include basketball, googling and fixing-up classic espresso machines. He also enjoys speaking about himself in the third person, which works well for bios but less well in daily life.
Eldar Shafir is an American psychologist, and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much[1] (with Sendhil Mullainathan). He is the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He is co-founder and Scientific Director at ideas42, a social-science R&D lab. His area of study is behavioral economics, that is, how the decisions people make affect their financial outcomes. His research has led him to the general conclusion that people often make inadvisable decisions on financial matters when they think they are being rational.
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem unconnected, yet Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that they are all are examples of a mind-set produced by scarcity.
Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and economics, Mullainathan and Shafir show that scarcity creates a similar psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need. Busy people fail to manage their time efficiently for the same reasons the poor and those maxed out on credit cards fail to manage their money. The dynamics of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before. Once we start thinking in terms of scarcity and the strategies it imposes, the problems of modern life come into sharper focus.
Mullainathan and Shafir discuss how scarcity affects our daily lives, recounting anecdotes of their own foibles and making surprising connections that bring this research alive. Their book provides a new way of understanding why the poor stay poor and the busy stay busy, and it reveals not only how scarcity leads us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success.
我没看过这本书,为什么要写书评? 这是我至今唯一一本没有看过就写书评的书。我看了目录和其他人的书评,关于匮乏,我有话要讲。 是心态。 如果缺时间,就不会想要15分钟后再吃棉花糖,就不会坚持锻炼,就不会觉得睡眠是最大的投资。 如果缺钱,就不会考虑学习,不会考虑投...
评分看到有人评论这本书说的全是一些正确的废话——不能同意更多。完全就是在展示作者对案例研究和所谓“提炼”的能力,如果说有用,那就是作者的研究方式是不错的,同时把那些正确的东西又展示了一遍。 整本书读下来不是很舒服,可能和翻译也有较大关系,“余闲”、“管窥”、“识...
评分 评分通常的解释是,因为蠢,所以赚钱能力差;因为懒,所以不能吃苦耐劳。两者相加导致穷,副产品是胖,因为意志力薄弱放纵食欲。 任何问题都不会只有一种正确的解释。《稀缺》提出了一个新观点:有没有可能是贫穷(稀缺)本身削弱了智力和意志力,进而加剧了贫穷(稀缺)?这有点...
评分由于我一直是个穷人,所以我对于这本书还是有点兴趣的,但一直也没有看,主要原因是觉得有些贵,总算有点钱了,买了下来,看却没有多少耐心看,多多少少的看了点,写点自己的经验吧。 之前总是换工作,有时候是主动,有时候是被动,我一换工作,基本上都得两三个月之后才能找到...
方法和结论都值得怀疑。
评分WCannon 推荐的,一般吧,其实读了前两章之后就懂得大意了
评分关于行为心理学。我们的问题是由于bandwidth是limited的,所以通常 focus on urgent at the expense of important。很简单的道理,改正却不容易。
评分A bit repetitive here and there, but overall a fascinating read.
评分一句话来回说了一千遍:稀缺性占用你带宽,让你脑子想不清楚,也跳不出来因为稀缺性心态已经深植于潜意识,无论这稀缺是金钱、时间、社交还是卡路里额度。长袖才能善舞,从容(slack)才能不迫(妈的这还要你说
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