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Discover how fears that there’s never enough can lead to vicious, costly cycles.
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The scarcity mindset is the fear that there’s never enough — whether it’s money, time, or resources. In “Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much,” Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist and winner of a MacArthur grant, and Eldar Shafir, a psychologist at Princeton University, explore how a lack of resources — whether money, time, or even social connection — impacts our thinking and…