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.
核心概念: 1、稀缺:拥有少于需要的感觉。 2、带宽:包括两种能力,分别是认知能力(分析、判断、逻辑推理...)和执行控制力(控制行为、控制情绪)。我的理解,就是精力。 3、专注红利:由于稀缺心态,我们会尽力完成事件而带来的积极成果。 4、管窥:专注于某一事物就意味着...
评分 评分小的时候没有觉得,长大后,越来越发现一个绝望的现实,那就是穷人更穷,富人更富,贫富差距是在逐渐拉大的。一直以为这种差距是因为富人有能力给孩子提供更多的社会资源,所处的平台不一样,视野也不一样,可以利用的人力物力资本不一样,但是还有一个很大的差距,就在于心...
评分还记得那个书店老板的故事,读书无数,头发快白了,博士毕业论文还是迟迟没有赶出来。很多时候,伟大的作品都在非常紧迫的时候完成。比如书中提到的那份美味佳肴。稀缺,会让我们变得专注。考试前的复习总是最有效的。但是,太专注了,我们的视野就小了,产生了管窥之见。比如...
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...
简言之“防患于未然”
评分关于行为心理学。我们的问题是由于bandwidth是limited的,所以通常 focus on urgent at the expense of important。很简单的道理,改正却不容易。
评分方法和结论都值得怀疑。
评分#有点儿意思
评分有点太详细了,看的太累。跟一般心理学科普的书不一样,感觉上偏学术,书是不错的,但是看得累,如果有中文版可能好点,能迅速调过不感兴趣的地方。
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