Sendhil Mullainathan

Eldar Shafir

Based on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and economics, this eye-opening examination of how scarcity affects our daily lives reveals how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success.

Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Scarcity

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Warum bleibt die Armut weltweit bestehen? Warum grassiert die Übergewichtigkeit? Warum haben es einsame Menschen schwerer, Freunde zu finden? All diese scheinbar unverbundenen Fragen beruhen auf dem Phänomen der Knappheit - ob an Zeit, Ressourcen oder sozialen Kontakten. Sendhil Mullainathan und Eldar Shafir begründen darauf eine neue Disziplin an der Schnittstelle von Ökonomie und Psychologie: die Wissenschaft von der Knappheit. Denn alle Formen der Knappheit erzeugen dieselben psychologischen Prozesse, dieselben Herausforderungen und Spannungen, dieselben Anstrengungen und gelegentlichen Fehler. Mit diesem Buch können wir unser Handeln besser begreifen und sogar modifizieren, damit wir künftig unsere selbst gesteckten Ziele leichter erreichen.

Was es mit uns macht, wenn wir zu wenig haben

Knappheit

Eldar Sharif

Why does a top-class chef, after years carefully perfecting her craft, create her best dish in just two rushed hours? Why are students less likely to miss tighter deadlines? Why are the terminally ill often happier than the healthy, and why do those struggling to make ends meet find it so difficult to escape debt? Here, economist Sendhill Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the answers lie in the new and surprising science of scarcity. Scarcity is not just a word: it's a mindset. It connects many of the diverse problems we face in life, from why the overweight can't stop eating, to why insomniacs can't sleep and the lonely find it so hard to make friends. Folk wisdom tells us not to go grocery shopping on an empty stomach - because you'll buy the wrong sort of food, and too much of it. Now, the latest research in psychology and economics shows that when we don't have enough, not only do we make the wrong choices, our brains also change. We have less mind to devote to the rest of our lives, or, in other words, we lack mental 'bandwidth'. By understanding these problems, Scarcity reveals how we can improve our ability to achieve our goals, and even turn a lack of time or other resources to our advantage. If you've ever wondered whyy you can never seem to keep on top of your workload, social diary or chores, why some people are more successful than others, or why some of us have more than others, Scarcity will make you see that more isn't always more. '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 'A powerhouse duo. I consider Sendhil to be the most interesting young economist in the world ... Eldar Shafir is the most brilliant psychologist in the field of judgment and decision-making to come along since Kahneman and Tversky.' Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge '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, co-author of Freakonomics

William J. Congdon

Jeffrey R. Kling

Traditional public finance provides a powerful framework for policy analysis, but it relies on a model of human behavior that the new science of behavioral economics increasingly calls into question. In Policy and Choice economists William Congdon, Jeffrey Kling, and Sendhil Mullainathan argue that public finance not only can incorporate many lessons of behavioral economics but also can serve as a solid foundation from which to apply insights from psychology to questions of economic policy. The authors revisit the core questions of public finance, armed with a richer perspective on human behavior. They do not merely apply findings from psychology to specific economic problems; instead, they explore how psychological factors actually reshape core concepts in public finance such as moral hazard, deadweight loss, and incentives. Part one sets the stage for integrating behavioral economics into public finance by interpreting the evidence from psychology and developing a framework for applying it to questions in public finance. In part two, the authors apply that framework to specific topics in public finance, including social insurance, externalities and public goods, income support and redistribution, and taxation. In doing so, the authors build a unified analytical approach that encompasses both traditional policy levers, such as taxes and subsidies, and more psychologically informed instruments. The net result of this innovative approach is a fully behavioral public finance, an integration of psychology and the economics of the public sector that is explicit, systematic, rigorous, and realistic.

Public Finance through the Lens of Behavioral Economics

Policy and Choice

Wie wir aus dem Minimum das Maximum herausholen

Die Kunst der Knappheit

Argues that public finance--the study of the government's role in economics--should incorporate principles from behavior economics and other branches of psychology.

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