3/18/26: Books and a beverage: Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

• Join us for an engaging discussion of ideas and experiences.
• No need to have any expertise or to have read the book, but if you have a chance to read, we will welcome your thoughts and analysis!
• Meeting Place: We will meet at the Karaoke lounge 6655 Delmar Blvd, University City, MO 63130 (but we are just using the space - there will not be food or beverages for sale). It is a bit tricky to find, but the entrance is from North side of Delmar Blvd.
• Bring a beverage and/or snacks if you wish.
• After the book discussion, we plan go to a Delmar loop restaurant for a bite for those interested.

From Amazon:
In this provocative book based on cutting-edge research, Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that scarcity creates a distinct psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need.

Busy people fail to manage their time efficiently for the same reasons the poor and those maxed out on credit cards fail to manage their money. The dynamics of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why the same sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before.

Once we start thinking in terms of scarcity, the problems of modern life come into sharper focus, and Scarcity reveals not only how it leads us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success.