Book Club Event on 05/21/2022 Scarcity by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

[Eugene]

Event is on May 21, 2022. 4pm EST.
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Full Title: Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

Pages to read: 234
ISBN: 9780805092646 (Originally listed edition, and Edition I am using)

While reading the book, consider the below questions:
•What is the raison d’etre of the book? For what purpose did the author write the book?
•What is scarcity?
•How does scarcity change how people think?
•What are the benefits of scarcity?
•What are the costs of scarcity?
•What is the mental bandwidth?
•What happens to errors under scarcity?
•What is slack? How does slack impact decisions?
•What is tunneling?
•Why do people borrow?
•What is the problem with poverty?
•How were the experiments set up?
•What is fault tolerance?
•What expectations of the individual do training programs have?

Your questions are important and will take priority. If you have questions about the book's content or related ideas, either let me know what your questions are or raise them during the discussion.

My Review of the Book:
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