--- 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 tags: - type/book - books - summaries - scarcity - work - life - society - poverty - zone/areas - zone/areas/literature_notes created: 2024-07-05T15:20 updated: 2026-04-01T14:45 public_note: true --- # Scarcity (book) - Author(s): [[Sendhil Mullainathan]], [[Eldar Shafir]] - Link: https://amzn.to/3L0o2YE ![[Scarcity (book).jpg|200]] # Brief description # Key quotes > ... # Key ideas ... # Chapter 1: ... ...