Eldar Shafir: Scarcity
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BBC
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
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Jo Fidgen interviews Eldar Shafir, professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University, and co-author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much in front of an audience at the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Jo will explore the book's key idea: that not having enough money or time, shapes all of our reactions, and ultimately our lives and society.
Producer: Ruth Alexander.
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| 0:38.4 | In this special edition of the program, Joe Fijon interviews the eminent psychologist Eldar Schofir in front of an international audience |
| 0:46.2 | of postgraduate students at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm with a room full of Oxford students and I'm going to ask them a couple of questions. |
| 0:55.0 | If you're listening at home, maybe you'd like to answer them too. |
| 0:59.0 | Do you have enough time? Shout yes if you do. |
| 1:03.0 | Shout no if you don't. |
| 1:05.0 | No. |
| 1:06.0 | Do you have enough money? |
| 1:08.0 | Shout yes if you do. |
| 1:10.0 | Shout no if you don't. |
| 1:12.0 | No. |
| 1:13.0 | That's pretty unanimous. |
| 1:15.0 | Probably not surprising that most of us will say no to one or both of those questions. |
| 1:19.0 | What may surprise you is that being short of money or time may change the way we think and |
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