Scarcity in Excess - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scarcity in Excess write by Arna Mathiesen. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Scarcity in Excess available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After a period of extraordinary economic growth at the turn of the twenty-first century, the economy of Iceland collapsed into the deepest and most rapid peacetime fiscal crisis ever recorded. Seeing the development of the capital area through the lens of scarcity, triggered new urban and regional questions and ecological approaches to design. This book considers both the crash and its aftermath as an opportunity to distil an intense snapshot of how ecological and human systems are interrelated, and how different ways of wiring those systems might lead to better and more resilient solutions. This publication derives from a case study on the built environment in the Reykjavik capital area in the light of the financial meltdown in October 2008. It is the work of the participants in the case study and a number of invited contributors from different fields; researchers, artists and activists that offer different perspectives on the case. The case study is a part of a larger European project, Scarcity and Creativity in the built Environment (SCIBE), funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area). The work presented suggests a new spirit of development applicable to various cultures and climates beyond Iceland.
Scarcity
Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scarcity write by Sendhil Mullainathan. This book was released on 2013-09-03. Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Does need for uniqueness moderate the scarcity enhancement effect?
Does need for uniqueness moderate the scarcity enhancement effect? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Does need for uniqueness moderate the scarcity enhancement effect? write by Isabella Dziambor. This book was released on 2010. Does need for uniqueness moderate the scarcity enhancement effect? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Age of Austerity
The Age of Austerity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Austerity write by Thomas Byrne Edsall. This book was released on 2012-01-10. The Age of Austerity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every level in the United States. Fights between haves and have-nots over health care, unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs, economic stimulus legislation—and, at the local level, over cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the number of teachers—have dominated the debate. Elected officials are being forced to make zero-sum choices—or worse, choices with no winners. Resource competition between Democrats and Republicans has left each side determined to protect what it has at the expense of the other. The major issues of the next few years—long-term deficit reduction; entitlement reform, notably of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; major cuts in defense spending; and difficulty in financing a continuation of American international involvement—suggest that your-gain-is-my-loss politics will inevitably intensify.
Scarcity
Scarcity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scarcity write by Sendhil Mullainathan. This book was released on 2014. Scarcity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why can we never seem to keep on top of our workload, social diary or chores? Why does poverty persist around the world? Why do successful people do things at the last minute in a sudden rush of energy? Here, economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir reveal that the hidden side behind all these problems is that they're all about scarcity.
