Scarcity (Unabridged) Scarcity (Unabridged)

Scarcity (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging 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 mindset 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.

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
RP
Robert Petkoff
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
08:47
hr min
RELEASED
2013
September 3
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Audio
SIZE
473.1
MB

Customer Reviews

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Required Reading

Required reading for anyone who grew up poor. People in positions of power will try to recreate the effects of poverty upon ascendant folks they wish to continue subjugating, both individually and as part of an organization. Understand this early and evaluate for it often.

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