Economist, Professor
Sendhil Mullainathan is an Indian American economist and professor of computation and behavioural science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. His book Scarcity, co authored with Eldar Shafir, explores how having too little captures the mind and affects decision making.
by Sendhil Mullainathan
Mullainathan shows scarcity captures the mind, creating tunnel vision that leads to worse decisions. Poverty isn't just a lack of resources - it's a cognitive tax that perpetuates itself.
The books Sendhil Mullainathan references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.
by Richard Thaler
Thaler and Sunstein argue that small changes in how choices are presented, nudges, can dramatically improve decisions without restricting freedom. Choice architecture is a powerful tool for public policy and beyond.
Who Sendhil draws from, and who draws from Sendhil — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.