Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps that it's a long time ago, right?

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BBC.co.uk slash radio 3. We all know there's less to go around. Austerity, crisis, scarcity.

These are amongst the key words of our time. Hence the title of today's discussion, How on earth can we cope with less?

But at another level, all resources are scarce, and thus the experience of scarcity may be what

binds us together. The unemployed don't have enough work, some of us don't have enough money,

some not enough food. In the end, we all run out of time.

Subjects such as economics think of scarcity as their own.

But who owns the subject of the psychology of scarcity?

What scarcity does to our minds.

Today we've brought three people together to explore what scarcity does

do to our minds and what the experience of scarcity does and is likely to do to us in a world of

diminishing resources. Sendil Melanadon is co-author of scarcity, why having too little means so much

and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius grant.

Simon Davudi is Professor here at Newcastle University's

Global Urban Research Unit,

exploring resilience and sustainability in planning,

and Jeremy Till's recent research

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