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.
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.
由于我一直是个穷人,所以我对于这本书还是有点兴趣的,但一直也没有看,主要原因是觉得有些贵,总算有点钱了,买了下来,看却没有多少耐心看,多多少少的看了点,写点自己的经验吧。 之前总是换工作,有时候是主动,有时候是被动,我一换工作,基本上都得两三个月之后才能找到...
评分作者对稀缺这一核心概念做了大量严谨而又合乎逻辑的说理,也用了大量的实例来解释稀缺这一核心概念,甚至不厌其烦的反反复复为我们解释带宽、余闲、管窥等几个子概念,好像生怕我们不理解、不相信似的。 耐着性子看到最后三章才发现,作者其实就想告诉我们要未雨绸缪、要储蓄...
评分通常的解释是,因为蠢,所以赚钱能力差;因为懒,所以不能吃苦耐劳。两者相加导致穷,副产品是胖,因为意志力薄弱放纵食欲。 任何问题都不会只有一种正确的解释。《稀缺》提出了一个新观点:有没有可能是贫穷(稀缺)本身削弱了智力和意志力,进而加剧了贫穷(稀缺)?这有点...
评分作者对稀缺这一核心概念做了大量严谨而又合乎逻辑的说理,也用了大量的实例来解释稀缺这一核心概念,甚至不厌其烦的反反复复为我们解释带宽、余闲、管窥等几个子概念,好像生怕我们不理解、不相信似的。 耐着性子看到最后三章才发现,作者其实就想告诉我们要未雨绸缪、要储蓄...
评分看到有人评论这本书说的全是一些正确的废话——不能同意更多。完全就是在展示作者对案例研究和所谓“提炼”的能力,如果说有用,那就是作者的研究方式是不错的,同时把那些正确的东西又展示了一遍。 整本书读下来不是很舒服,可能和翻译也有较大关系,“余闲”、“管窥”、“识...
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。
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
评分这个故事告诉我们,即使死到临头,也要像自己能活五百年一样思考决策
评分WCannon 推荐的,一般吧,其实读了前两章之后就懂得大意了
评分前期滥用资源→_→稀缺性→_→过于注意→_→带宽限制→_→进一步的循环
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