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.
//2015-07-08 10:12 <稀缺-我们是如何陷入贫穷与忙碌的> 摘要 这本书分析了稀缺的内在来源和所造成的影响,列举了许多例子,下面我把它的核心思想记录一下: [ 稀缺心态是一切稀缺的根源。 资源稀缺并不可怕,就怕有稀缺心态(以后简称'稀缺')。 稀缺的定义:稀缺,是"...
評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...
評分作者:安替 【导读】人们总是说,只有对钱抱有百分的渴望,才能够拥有钱。穷人是因为渴望不够吗? 穷人只所以贫穷是因为他们不努力吗,拖延症患者之所以拖拉是因为不知道时间宝贵吗,本文从心理学、行为经济学和政策研究揭示了一个天才发现。美国一个跨学科团队今年完成了一...
評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...
評分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...
很有啓發。四星+,如果再簡潔一點就是五星瞭。這裏的scarcity,和微觀經濟學中的同一個詞並非一個意思,後者是抽象的“稀缺”(即"constraint binds"),而前者譯為“匱乏”更閤適——它指的是對資源的高度缺乏和與之相伴的“mindset"。
评分http://site.douban.com/177678/widget/notes/10060932/note/306686128/
评分http://site.douban.com/177678/widget/notes/10060932/note/306686128/
评分方法和結論都值得懷疑。
评分關於行為心理學。我們的問題是由於bandwidth是limited的,所以通常 focus on urgent at the expense of important。很簡單的道理,改正卻不容易。
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息,本站不存儲任何數據與內容,任何內容與數據均與本站無關,如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美書屋 版权所有