

- Supply and demand, Scarcity, Decision making, Industries, social aspects
An examination of how scarcity--and our flawed responses to it--shapes our lives, our society, and our culture.
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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Sendhil Mullainathan
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Picador, Penguin Books, Limited, Picador/Henry Holt and Company
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780805092646
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