Sendhil Mullainathan Libri

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.

Audiobook: 8 hrs and 47 mins A surprising and intriguing 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 mind-set 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. Mullainathan and Shafir discuss how scarcity affects our daily lives, recounting anecdotes of their own foibles and making surprising connections that bring this research alive. Their book provides a new way of understanding why the poor stay poor and the busy stay busy, and it reveals not only how scarcity leads us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success. http://us.macmillan.com/scarcity/Send...

Three years ago, Mike McClintock retired from his job in the FBI in Chicago as a special agent. He purchased a vineyard in the Santa Ynez Valley, believing he was leaving a high stressed position for a slower paced lifestyle. Mike and his family join his brother Jason and his partner, Brenda for a seven day cruise. While at sea, Mike and Jason's old friend and ex-KGB agent, Vladimir Petronovich travels to his hometown in Kazakhstan where he is kidnapped and imprisoned by Sergey Naryshkin, a rogue Russian agent that has sworn revenge on any Russian agents that defected to America during the cold war. Upon hearing the news, Mike and Jason cut their cruise short and head to Kazakhstan to save their friend. Twists, turns and danger seem to follow the McClintocks and Petronovich. Naryshkin will stop at nothing to hunt them down and reap his revenge. Have the McClintock brothers and Petronovich finally met their match?

"The tank mounted on the converted DC-10 holds 12,000 gallons. The mixture is one part crystal to nine parts water. The crystals are placed in the tank first, then the water is added. At that point, the sarin crystals dissolve into a solution. That's the lethal combination. Picture a DC-10 air tanker over a wildfire. When the plane is over the target, the pilot releases the fire retardant. The drop itself takes eight seconds and covers a path 300 feet wide by one mile in length. But we're not dropping a fire retardant. When our mixture is released, the water evaporates in the atmosphere, leaving sarin gas." Read this engaging tale of espionage that will set your heart racing. William Congdon's prose is immersive, sharp, and to-the-point. Violence, radicalism, class struggle, and self-annihilation are only a few of the themes that the novel explores in a crisp manner.

In dit boek bieden Harvard-econoom Sendhil Mullainathan en Princeton-psycholoog Eldar Shafir een baanbrekend nieuw perspectief op menselijk gedrag. Sleutelwoord: schaarste. Mentale scherpte is de gunstige bijwerking van schaarste; het leeuwendeel van het boek gaat echter over de destructieve gevolgen ervan. Aan de hand van eigen onderzoek en spraakmakende voorbeelden tonen de auteurs aan dat de gevolgen van schaarste veel verder gaan dan tot nu toe bekend. Ze presenteren uiteenlopende gedragsexperimenten die aantonen hoe schaarste het denkvermogen van mensen verlamt. Armoede zorgt er voor dat men moeilijk nieuwe vaardigheden aan kan leren en gebrek aan tijd leidt ertoe dat we steeds onverstandigere beslissingen nemen. Deze inzichten hebben verregaande gevolgen op vele terreinen (onder andere armoedebestrijding, scholing, obesitas, verkeersveiligheid en werkloosheid).