Scarcity

Sendhil Mullainathan, the 'most interesting young economist in the world', and Eldar Shafir, the 'most brilliant psychologist' of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with Scarcity Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the hidden side behind all these problems is that they're all about scarcity. Using the new science of scarcity, they explain why obesity is rampant; why people find it difficult to sleep when most sleep deprived; and why the lonely find it so hard to make friends. Scarcity will change the way you think about both the little everyday tasks and the big issues of global urgency. 'Stars in their respective disciplines, and the combination is greater than the sum of its parts. Their project has a unique feel to it: it is the finest combination of heart and head that I have seen in our field' - Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow 'Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live' - Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics 'An ultimately humane and very welcome book' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard, and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant". He conducts research on development economics, behavioural economics, and corporate finance. He is Executive Director of Ideas 42, Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University. Eldar Shafir is William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Most of his work focuses on descriptive analyses of inference, judgment, and decision making, and on issues related to behavioural economics.

Sendhil Mullainathan, the 'most interesting young economist in the world', and Eldar Shafir, the 'most brilliant psychologist' of his generation, explain the hidden problem behind everything with Scarcity Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the hidden side behind all these problems is that they're all about scarcity. Using the new science of scarcity, they explain why obesity is rampant; why people find it difficult to sleep when most sleep deprived; and why the lonely find it so hard to make friends. Scarcity will change the way you think about both the little everyday tasks and the big issues of global urgency. 'Stars in their respective disciplines, and the combination is greater than the sum of its parts. Their project has a unique feel to it: it is the finest combination of heart and head that I have seen in our field' - Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow 'Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live' - Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics 'An ultimately humane and very welcome book' - Oliver Burkeman, Guardian Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard, and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant". He conducts research on development economics, behavioural economics, and corporate finance. He is Executive Director of Ideas 42, Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University. Eldar Shafir is William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. Most of his work focuses on descriptive analyses of inference, judgment, and decision making, and on issues related to behavioural economics.

An examination of how humans cope with scarcity of all kinds in their lives, in productive and unproductive ways, by a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychologist.

An examination of how humans cope with scarcity of all kinds in their lives, in productive and unproductive ways, by a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychologist.

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 scarcityand our flawed responses to itshapes 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.

"Scarcity" - på dansk knaphed, er en bog af Fredrik Albritton Jonsson og Carl Wennerlind. Det er en bog om begrebet økonomisk knaphed, hvor vi kommer omkring begrebets udvikling, dets femhundrede årige historie og den afgørende rolle, netop det begreb og dets idehistorie, har spillet i den nuværende klimakrise. Fredrik Albritton Jonsson og Carl Wennerlind viser, hvordan knaphedsbegrebet har forudsat et syn på verden, der antog, at mennesket havde et uendeligt antal af ønsker og behov iboende i sig, og at det er samfundets rolle at facilitere vækst og forbrug, for at imødekomme dette behov - uanset naturens grænser og omkostninger. I "Scarcity" argumenterer forfatterne for, at vi i stedet skal mestre vores ønsker fremfor at udnytte vores knappe ressourcer. Bogen fremfører en række store tænkeres ideer om knaphedsbegrebet, herunder Francis Bacon, Samuel Hartlib og disses kritikere bl.a. Marx, Hannah Arendt, Gerrard Winstanley m.fl. og inviterer sine læsere til at forestille sig andre måder, vi som mennesker kan blomstre på, på jorden.

"Scarcity" - på dansk knaphed, er en bog af Fredrik Albritton Jonsson og Carl Wennerlind. Det er en bog om begrebet økonomisk knaphed, hvor vi kommer omkring begrebets udvikling, dets femhundrede årige historie og den afgørende rolle, netop det begreb og dets idehistorie, har spillet i den nuværende klimakrise. Fredrik Albritton Jonsson og Carl Wennerlind viser, hvordan knaphedsbegrebet har forudsat et syn på verden, der antog, at mennesket havde et uendeligt antal af ønsker og behov iboende i sig, og at det er samfundets rolle at facilitere vækst og forbrug, for at imødekomme dette behov - uanset naturens grænser og omkostninger. I "Scarcity" argumenterer forfatterne for, at vi i stedet skal mestre vores ønsker fremfor at udnytte vores knappe ressourcer. Bogen fremfører en række store tænkeres ideer om knaphedsbegrebet, herunder Francis Bacon, Samuel Hartlib og disses kritikere bl.a. Marx, Hannah Arendt, Gerrard Winstanley m.fl. og inviterer sine læsere til at forestille sig andre måder, vi som mennesker kan blomstre på, på jorden.