Scarcity : Why Having Too Little Means So Much (CD-Audio)

from deusvitae

A compelling exploration of the effects of scarcity of a resource in life and psychology. The authors use various sociological methods to explore the effects of scarcity on a person. They demonstrate that scarcity has the ability to focus the mind: we focus better when we're approaching a deadlin...

from steve02476

A clearly written and oddly funny examination of the effects of scarcity on human behavior. They are mindful that a scarcity of money is far more crucial and devastating than the scarcity of time suffered by busy but well-off professionals, but they make a good case that there really are some par...

from Daniel.Estes

There's a passage from the introduction where the authors tell a colleague about their research for this book, and the colleague replies, "There's already a science of scarcity. You might have heard of it. It's called economics." The authors then go on to defend why their particular focus is uniq...

from ohernaes

In contrast to other popular science books, here for once is one that acknowledges that there are trade-offs in the world-more of everything is not necessarily better. Much is quite standard for an economist used to thinking about scarce resources, here attention. The novel point is that scarcity...

from lbeaumont

The mathematics of queuing theory demonstrates that as resource utilization approaches 100%, queue length and delay increase toward infinity. Systems that are not resilient to congestion reach a point of overload where they experience a decrease in carried load even as offered load increases. We ...