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status: To Read
title: Scarcity
subtitle: Why having too little means so much
description: Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the hidden side of all these problems is that they're all about scarcity.
categories:
- Non-fiction
- Entrepreneurship
- Business
authors:
- [[Sendhil Mullainathan]]
- [[Eldar Shafir]]
published_on: 2013-09-05
publisher: Penguin UK
pages: 304
isbn: 141961198
cover: http://books.google.com/books/content?id=eBRUtoVzSMUC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&source=gbs_api
local_cover: 50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/Scarcity (book).jpg
link: https://amzn.to/3L0o2YE
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- summaries
- scarcity
- work
- life
- society
- poverty
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updated: 2026-04-01T14:45
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# Scarcity (book)
- Author(s): [[Sendhil Mullainathan]], [[Eldar Shafir]]
- Link: https://amzn.to/3L0o2YE
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