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《稀缺》我们是如何陷入贫穷与忙碌的。关于稀缺的定义是拥有少于需要的感觉。现象:钱的问题会永远纠缠着穷人,时间问题只会永远烦扰着忙碌之人。你是否遇到这样的事情: 1.要做的事情太多,而用来要做事情的时间又太少,许多事情早就过了原定的截止日期一直在延期越来越让人担...
评分我没看过这本书,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...
评分偶然在微信朋友圈里看到介绍一篇《稀缺》的书评,读过之后就立即把书买了下来。吸引我的不是别的,正是“稀缺”这个主题。书的引言里说描写了书作者塞德希尔面临的忙碌和焦虑,相信这个也是很多职场人的切身体会,至少我深有感触: 我的工作是IT技术支持,工作职责就是解决客...
评分对于经历过高考的人,想必也知道我们的老师常常强调时间的重要性,因此在高中,路上背单词,排队打饭背古文的人不在少数。然而一旦走出高中,你很快就会发现你再也没有这种如此完美的情况了。 我遇见挺多考不过4、6级的大学生总是抱怨自己没有很多时间准备考试,他...
方法和结论都值得怀疑。
评分很有启发。四星+,如果再简洁一点就是五星了。这里的scarcity,和微观经济学中的同一个词并非一个意思,后者是抽象的“稀缺”(即"constraint binds"),而前者译为“匮乏”更合适——它指的是对资源的高度缺乏和与之相伴的“mindset"。
评分我觉得作者就几个概念反复论证涵盖了整本书:Scarcity虽然说双刃剑(让人更专注而有效率但也使得人目光短缺做出不明智的选择);所谓的bandwidth无非就是cognitive capacity;要明白人思考的轨迹而分析现实中的原委以此来改善制度与规则。#就这些为什么要写满一本书啊
评分基本上就是“你穷所以你蠢”的论点罢
评分为什么感觉翻来覆去在说同一个事情?有些东西只是当常识在讲却没有研究数据支持,(例如wasp的巢穴比蜜蜂更不规整,因为前者是用土筑巢的后者用蜂蜡,作者认为是筑巢资源多寡导致行为不同,这万一和基因有关呢?)还有,作者选择性忽略富人possessive的一些行为,穷人也可能因为有spiritual experience变得从容,这就和外部资源无关,而是和内部认知评估有关了。这些都没涉及,说个卵。
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