Scarcity¶
Mullainathan, S., & Shafir, E. (2013). Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. Times Books.
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Primes¶
- Decision Fatigue
- Mullainathan and Shafir's (2013) scarcity research extends the concept: decision-fatigue-like effects arise when cognitive bandwidth is taxed by scarcity conditions (poverty, time pressure, social threat), collapsing decision quality across domains.
This sourceDevelops the 'bandwidth tax': scarcity (poverty, time pressure) captures the mind and degrades executive function and decision quality across domains.
- Mullainathan and Shafir's (2013) scarcity research extends the concept: decision-fatigue-like effects arise when cognitive bandwidth is taxed by scarcity conditions (poverty, time pressure, social threat), collapsing decision quality across domains.
- Scarcity
- Mullainathan and Shafir (2013) sharpened this further by showing that scarcity is not only a feature of systems but a cognitive condition: operating under acute scarcity (of money, time, or attention) captures the mind, narrows the perceptual field to the pressing lack, and degrades the very judgment needed to escape it.
This sourceShows scarcity is not only a feature of systems but a cognitive condition: acute scarcity captures the mind, narrows the perceptual field to the pressing lack, and degrades the judgment needed to escape it.
- Mullainathan and Shafir (2013) sharpened this further by showing that scarcity is not only a feature of systems but a cognitive condition: operating under acute scarcity (of money, time, or attention) captures the mind, narrows the perceptual field to the pressing lack, and degrades the very judgment needed to escape it.
- Threshold Bounded Vicious Cycle
- In cognitive bandwidth it is scarcity-as-tax, where below a slack threshold cognitive resources are consumed managing scarcity, producing errors that deepen it.
This sourceArgues that scarcity taxes cognitive bandwidth, so that below a slack threshold scarcity consumes the very resources needed to escape it, deepening the deficit.
- In cognitive bandwidth it is scarcity-as-tax, where below a slack threshold cognitive resources are consumed managing scarcity, producing errors that deepen it.
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