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Scarcity Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Sendhil Mullainathan

In this provocative book based on cutting-edge research, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that scarcity creates a distinct 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...

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The Ezra Klein Show

The book Scarcity was cited as the source of the "bandwidth tax" concept, showing how poverty taxes mental bandwidth.

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the bandwidth tax is an idea that comes from a book called Scarcity, which is by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.

— Episode: Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction t...

Episode: Matthew Desmond On America’s Addiction to Poverty

The book Scarcity was cited as the source of the "bandwidth tax" concept, showing how poverty taxes mental bandwidth.

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the bandwidth tax is an idea that comes from a book called Scarcity, which is by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir.

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