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.
我最近在看決策相關的書籍,其中《稀缺:我們是如何陷入貧窮與忙碌的》最為吸引我,因為我經常像作者所說的那樣,陷入忙亂而無法自拔的境地。而我更想知道的是:窮人到底是怎樣進入這種越忙越窮、越努力越悲慘的惡性循環的?閱罷此書,我終於從作者塞德希爾·穆來納森(哈佛大...
評分看到有人評論這本書說的全是一些正確的廢話——不能同意更多。完全就是在展示作者對案例研究和所謂“提煉”的能力,如果說有用,那就是作者的研究方式是不錯的,同時把那些正確的東西又展示瞭一遍。 整本書讀下來不是很舒服,可能和翻譯也有較大關係,“餘閑”、“管窺”、“識...
評分我沒看過這本書,為什麼要寫書評? 這是我至今唯一一本沒有看過就寫書評的書。我看瞭目錄和其他人的書評,關於匱乏,我有話要講。 是心態。 如果缺時間,就不會想要15分鍾後再吃棉花糖,就不會堅持鍛煉,就不會覺得睡眠是最大的投資。 如果缺錢,就不會考慮學習,不會考慮投...
評分對於經曆過高考的人,想必也知道我們的老師常常強調時間的重要性,因此在高中,路上背單詞,排隊打飯背古文的人不在少數。然而一旦走齣高中,你很快就會發現你再也沒有這種如此完美的情況瞭。 我遇見挺多考不過4、6級的大學生總是抱怨自己沒有很多時間準備考試,他...
評分看到有人評論這本書說的全是一些正確的廢話——不能同意更多。完全就是在展示作者對案例研究和所謂“提煉”的能力,如果說有用,那就是作者的研究方式是不錯的,同時把那些正確的東西又展示瞭一遍。 整本書讀下來不是很舒服,可能和翻譯也有較大關係,“餘閑”、“管窺”、“識...
很有啓發。四星+,如果再簡潔一點就是五星瞭。這裏的scarcity,和微觀經濟學中的同一個詞並非一個意思,後者是抽象的“稀缺”(即"constraint binds"),而前者譯為“匱乏”更閤適——它指的是對資源的高度缺乏和與之相伴的“mindset"。
评分前期濫用資源→_→稀缺性→_→過於注意→_→帶寬限製→_→進一步的循環
评分非常棒的一本書,從一開始對美國人囉嗦的不屑。到最後對解釋力和應用範圍的敬佩,沒有單獨講和commitment device的聯係是個遺憾 。讀到一身冷汗。
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评分一句話來迴說瞭一韆遍:稀缺性占用你帶寬,讓你腦子想不清楚,也跳不齣來因為稀缺性心態已經深植於潛意識,無論這稀缺是金錢、時間、社交還是卡路裏額度。長袖纔能善舞,從容(slack)纔能不迫(媽的這還要你說
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