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Insightful and practical.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 24, 2022

Love this book. On par with Thinking, Fast and Slow and essential reading for anyone who wants more ways to navigate having too little time / attention / money.

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David E. Giles

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 15, 2015

Very disappointing.

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David E. Giles

One Star

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 15, 2015

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Very disappointing.

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A non-actionable and very repetitive book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 21, 2022

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It was one of the hardest reads for me and I’m actually surprised that I finished this book.

It’s not actually that horrible, but I feel that it wasted it’s potential. Or maybe the topic is just not worth to be a book but should’ve been a few blog post or an article in a journal instead.

Here the thing: you can’t explain everything the human can face with one concept (ok, with 3 actually, but highly related - an *abundance* that leads to *scarcity* that

Fausto Copi

attractive cover and not much else

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 29, 2013

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This book has an attractive cover and that's about it .
After a positive review in the financial times I expected an entertaining and possibly
thought provoking book in the style of Freakonomics or Nudge.
It attempts to present a coherent theory on making choices under lack of resources.
As a thesis it is too flawed to entice ,barely a first draft for an MSc.
The authors try to engage the reader with self defined concepts such as bandwidth and scarcity .
These concepts keep popping up and nauseam but do not help to make the theory any clearer.
In summary a book to fails to entertain or give any fresh or unusual insights in the psychology of economics.
I would NOT buy this book again and not recommend that anybody who values there time to read it

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Scott K. Aberegg

Time was too scarce to write a short book, so we wrote a long one instead

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 21, 2013

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The ideas hold some promise but are not developed enough and nor is the authors research. This would be acceptable if the writing were not so patronizing and utterly redundant. This is NOT Gladwell style writing. It is tedious. Some poorly written books you need to read because the ideas are so good you can't afford to miss out on them. Not so here. You can afford to not read anything but a paragraph summary of the main idea and move on and save yourself the drudgery.

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Susan Patla

Scarcity is disappointing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2014

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I bought this book with great anticipation after hearing a book interview on the radio. I have only gotten half way through due to lack of interest. It offers a Hodge-podge of ideas that are not that well connected with none developed in depth. The problems of the lower income classes in this country deserve more careful consideration.

7 people found this helpful

James-philip Harries

The economists were right

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 23, 2016

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Stuff is scarce. So is time. Don't waste it on this book.

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Gabbie

Don't waste your time

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 11, 2014

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I was assigned this book for college so I didn't have a choice in reading it, but it was a pretentious waste of time and money. If you're planning on reading it of your own volition, don't bother. It's pointless and dumb.

2 people found this helpful

Amazon Customer

Read 70 pages and then skipped around a bit trying ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 14, 2016

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Read 70 pages and then skipped around a bit trying to insights that weren't completely nonsensical. Put it down shortly after. I would definitely NOT purchase this book. If you want mine you can have it.

4 people found this helpful

S Malone

I didn't want the kindle edition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 2, 2013

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I wanted the book version but Amazon is always trying to con you into buying the kindle edition. I don't even have a kindle and now I've ended up buying the thing twice

So now of course my Kindle order is "pending", but I can't cancel the thing.

I look forward to reading the book when it arrives

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sharpspotter

OVERBLOWN

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 6, 2015

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You'll get the idea in the first 10 pages.. good luck trying to stay awake for the rest. Overblown intellectual reading

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