Sendhil Mullainathan has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 19 ratings. The most-rated is Scarcity.
Scarcity
Summary
In the blockbuster tradition of Freakonomics, a Harvard economist and a Princeton psychology professor team up to offer a surprising and empowering new way to look at everyday life, presenting a paradigm-challenging 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 mindset 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.
©2013 Ellen Hopkins (P)2013 Simon & Schuster
Die Kunst der Knappheit
Summary
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.
©2013 Campus Verlag (P)2013 Abod Verlag