Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of economics at Harvard University, is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” and conducts research on development economics, behavioral economics, and corporate finance. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Eldar Shafir is the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He conducts research in cognitive science, judgment and decision-making, and behavioral economics. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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.
發表於2025-02-25
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還記得那個書店老闆的故事,讀書無數,頭發快白瞭,博士畢業論文還是遲遲沒有趕齣來。很多時候,偉大的作品都在非常緊迫的時候完成。比如書中提到的那份美味佳肴。稀缺,會讓我們變得專注。考試前的復習總是最有效的。但是,太專注瞭,我們的視野就小瞭,産生瞭管窺之見。比如...
評分通常的解釋是,因為蠢,所以賺錢能力差;因為懶,所以不能吃苦耐勞。兩者相加導緻窮,副産品是胖,因為意誌力薄弱放縱食欲。 任何問題都不會隻有一種正確的解釋。《稀缺》提齣瞭一個新觀點:有沒有可能是貧窮(稀缺)本身削弱瞭智力和意誌力,進而加劇瞭貧窮(稀缺)?這有點...
評分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《稀缺》我們是如何陷入貧窮與忙碌的。關於稀缺的定義是擁有少於需要的感覺。現象:錢的問題會永遠糾纏著窮人,時間問題隻會永遠煩擾著忙碌之人。你是否遇到這樣的事情: 1.要做的事情太多,而用來要做事情的時間又太少,許多事情早就過瞭原定的截止日期一直在延期越來越讓人擔...
評分圖書標籤: 經濟學 心理學 行為經濟學 認知科學 心理 香港中央圖書館 藍田 英國
邂逅:2014.1.圖書館; 旅程:2014.1.-2014.2.; 地點:坡縣各處; Time is seriously scarcity to me!!!!!但似乎隻是用新穎的心理學+經濟學的行為經濟學的材料來說很大白話的道理。缺少Ed所說的啊哈...兩位作者的語言還是挺幽默的,但注釋方麵做得粗瞭一點。可以帶走的point就是pro-poor policy的成功必須要有economic reasoning.
評分邂逅:2014.1.圖書館; 旅程:2014.1.-2014.2.; 地點:坡縣各處; Time is seriously scarcity to me!!!!!但似乎隻是用新穎的心理學+經濟學的行為經濟學的材料來說很大白話的道理。缺少Ed所說的啊哈...兩位作者的語言還是挺幽默的,但注釋方麵做得粗瞭一點。可以帶走的point就是pro-poor policy的成功必須要有economic reasoning.
評分Explore and explain human behaviors in the situation of limited resources(time, money...) from the psychological side. Fresh and inspiring for the originality. For the action part, still more to explore.
評分Explore and explain human behaviors in the situation of limited resources(time, money...) from the psychological side. Fresh and inspiring for the originality. For the action part, still more to explore.
評分Been there. Felt that.
Scarcity 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載