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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Muchby Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcityand our flawed responses to itshapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem unconnected,/b>
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcityand our flawed responses to itshapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem unconnected, yet Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that they are all examples of a mind-set produced by scarcity.
Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and economics, Mullainathan and Shafir show that scarcity creates a similar 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 sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before. Once we start thinking in terms of scarcity and the strategies it imposes, the problems of modern life come into sharper focus.
Mullainathan and Shafir discuss how scarcity affects our daily lives, recounting anecdotes of their own foibles and making surprising connections that bring this research alive. Their book provides a new way of understanding why the poor stay poor and the busy stay busy, and it reveals not only how scarcity leads us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success.
Editorial Reviews
"Extraordinarily illuminating. . . . Mullainathan and Shafir have made an important, novel, and immensely creative contribution." Cass R. Sunstein, The New York Review of Books
"Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir offer groundbreaking insights into, among other themes, the effects of poverty on cognition and our ability to make choices about our lives." Samantha Power, The Wall Street Journal
"Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live." Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics
"Compelling, important … Scarcity is likely to change how you view both entrenched poverty and your own ability -- or inability --to get as much done as you'd like… It's a handy guide for those of us looking to better understand our inability to ever climb out of the holes we dig ourselves, whether related to money, relationships, or time." The Boston Globe
"Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir are stars in their respective disciplines, and the combination is greater than the sum of its parts. Together they manage to merge scientific rigor and a wry view of the human predicament. Their project has a unique feel to it: it is the finest combination of heart and head that I have seen in our field." Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
"The scarcity phenomenon is good news because to a certain extent, we can design our way around it...What's particularly useful about the idea of scarcity is that it is overarching; ease that burden, and people will be better able to deal with all the rest." The New York Times
"Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show how the logic of scarcity applies to rich and poor, educated and illiterate, Asian, Western, Hispanic, and African cultures alike. They offer insights that can help us change our individual behavior and that open up an entire new landscape of public policy solutions. A breathtaking achievement!" Anne-Marie Slaughter, professor emerita, Princeton University, and president and CEO of the New America Foundation
"A key point of Mullainathan and Shafir's work is that we may all experience different kinds of scarcity, accompanied by the same hyper-narrow focus and costs in lost attention elsewhere." The Atlantic
"Here is a winning recipe. Take a behavioral economist and a cognitive psychologist, each a prominent leader in his field, and let their creative minds commingle. What you get is a highly original and easily readable book that is full of intriguing insights. What does a single mom trying to make partner at a major law firm have in common with a peasant who spends half her income on interest payments? The answer is scarcity. Read this book to learn the surprising ways in which scarcity affects us all." Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago, coauthor of Nudge
"[Mullainathan and Shafir] examine how having too little of something first inspires focused bursts of creativity and productivity--consider how looming deadlines can motivate us. But a long-term dearth can result in fixations that hinder our decision-making...Less is not necessarily more." Discover Magazine
"With a smooth blend of stories and studies, Scarcity reveals how the feeling of having less than we need can narrow our vision and distort our judgment. This is a book with huge implications for both personal development and public policy." Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human
"Scarcity is certain to gain popularity and generate discussion because it hits home. Everyone has experienced scarcity, and the research cited will likely alter every reader's worldview." American Scientist's "Scientists' Bookshelf"
"Insightful, eloquent, and utterly original, Scarcity is the book you can't get enough of. It is essential reading for those who don't have the time for essential reading." Daniel Gilbert, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Stumbling on Happiness
"The book's unified theory of the scarcity mentality is novel in its scope and ambition." The Economist
"A pacey dissection of a potentially life-changing subject." Time Out London
"A succinct, digestible and often delightfully witty introduction to an important new branch of economics." New Statesman
"One of the most significant economics books of the year." Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
"The struggle for insufficient resources--time, money, food, companionship--concentrates the mind for better and, mostly, worse, according to this revelatory treatise on the psychology of scarcity . . . The authors support their lucid, accessible argument with a raft of intriguing research . . . and apply it to surprising nudges that remedy everything from hospital overcrowding to financial ignorance . . . Insightful." Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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- Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
- Publication date:
- 09/03/2013
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- 304
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Read an Excerpt
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
—Marie Dressler,
Academy Award–winning actress
We wrote this book because we were too busy not to.
Sendhil was grumbling to Eldar. He had more to-dos than time to do them in. Deadlines had matured from "overdue" to "alarmingly late." Meetings had been sheepishly rescheduled. His in-box was swelling with messages that needed his attention. He could picture his mother's hurt face at not getting even an occasional call. His car registration had expired. And things were getting worse. That conference one connecting flight away seemed like a good idea six months ago. Not so much now. Falling behind had turned into a vicious cycle. Re-registering the car was now one more thing to do. A project had taken a wrong direction because of a tardy e-mail response; getting it back on track meant yet more work. The past-due pile of life was growing dangerously close to toppling.
The irony of spending time lamenting the lack of time was not lost on Eldar. It was only partly lost on Sendhil who, undeterred, described his plan for getting out.
He would first stem the tide. Old obligations would need to be fulfilled, but new ones could be avoided. He would say no to every new request. He would prevent further delays on old projects by working meticulously to finish them. Eventually, this austerity would pay off. The to-do pile would shrink to a manageable level. Only then would he even think about new projects. And of course he would be more prudent going forward. "Yes" would be rare and uttered only after careful scrutiny. It would not be easy, but it was necessary.
Having made the plan felt good. Of course it did. As Voltaire noted long ago, "Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
A week later, another call from Sendhil: Two colleagues were putting together a book on the lives of low-income Americans. "This is a great opportunity. We should write a chapter," he said. His voice, Eldar recalls, lacked even a trace of irony.
Predictably, the chapter was "too good to pass up," and we agreed to do it. Just as predictably, it was a mistake, written in a rush and behind schedule. Unpredictably, it was a worthwhile mistake, creating an unexpected connection that eventually led to this book.
Here is an excerpt from our background notes for that chapter:
Shawn, an office manager in Cleveland, was struggling to make ends meet. He was late on a bunch of bills. His credit cards were maxed out. His paycheck ran out quickly. As he said, "There is always more month than money." The other day, he accidentally bounced a check after overestimating the money in his account; he had forgotten a $22 purchase. Every phone call made him tense: another creditor calling to "remind" him? Being out of money was also affecting his personal life. Sometimes at dinner he would put in less than his fair share because he was short. His friends understood, but it didn't feel good.
And there was no end in sight. He had bought a Blu-ray player on credit, with no payments for the first six months. That was five months ago. How would he pay this extra bill next month? Already, more and more money went to paying off old debts. The bounced check had a hefty overdraft charge. The late bills meant late fees. His finances were a mess. He was in the deep end of the debt pool and barely staying afloat.
Shawn, like many people in his situation, got financial advice from many sources, all of it pretty similar:
Don't sink any deeper. Stop borrowing. Cut your spending to the minimum. Some expenses may be tough to cut, but you'll have to learn how. Pay off your old debts as quickly as possible. Eventually, with no new debts, your payments will become manageable. After this, remain vigilant so as not to fall back in. Spend and borrow wisely. Avoid unaffordable luxuries. If you must borrow, be clear about what it takes to pay it back.
This advice worked better in theory than in practice for Shawn. Resisting temptation is hard. Resisting all temptations was even harder. A leather jacket he had coveted went on sale at a great price. Skimping on his daughter's birthday gift felt less sensible as the day got closer. There were too many ways to spend more than he planned. Shawn eventually sank back into the debt pool.
It did not take long for us to notice the resemblance between Sendhil's and Shawn's behavior. Missed deadlines are a lot like overdue bills. Double-booked meetings (committing time you do not have) are a lot like bounced checks (spending money you do not have). The busier you are, the greater the need to say no. The more indebted you are, the greater the need to not buy. Plans to escape sound reasonable but prove hard to implement. They require constant vigilance—about what to buy or what to agree to do. When vigilance flags—the slightest temptation in time or in money—you sink deeper. Shawn ended up stuck with accumulating debt. Sendhil ended up stuck under mounting commitments.
This resemblance is striking because the circumstances are so different. We normally think of time management and money management as distinct problems. The consequences of failing are different: bad time management leads to embarrassment or poor job performance; bad money management leads to fees or eviction. The cultural contexts are different: falling behind and missing a deadline means one thing to a busy professional; falling behind and missing a debt payment means something else to an urban low-wage worker. The surroundings differ. The education levels differ. Even aspirations can differ. Yet despite these differences, the end behavior is remarkably similar.
Sendhil and Shawn did have one thing in common: each of them was feeling the effects of scarcity. By scarcity, we mean having less than you feel you need. Sendhil felt harried; he felt he had too little time to do all the things he needed to do. Shawn felt cash strapped, with too little money for all the bills he needed to pay. Could this common connection explain their behavior? Could it be that scarcity itself led Sendhil and Shawn to behave in such similar ways?
Uncovering a common logic to scarcity would have big implications. Scarcity is a broad concept that extends well beyond these personal anecdotes. The problem of unemployment, for example, is also the problem of financial scarcity. The loss of a job makes a household's budget suddenly tight—too little income to cover the mortgage, car payments, and day-to-day expenses. The problem of increasing social isolation—"bowling alone"—is a form of social scarcity, of people having too few social bonds. The problem of obesity is also, perhaps counterintuitively, a problem of scarcity. Sticking to a diet requires coping with the challenge of having less to eat than you feel accustomed to—a tight calorie budget or calorie scarcity. The problem of global poverty—the tragedy of multitudes of people around the world making do with a dollar or two a day—is another kind of financial scarcity. Unlike the sudden and possibly fleeting tightening of one's budget due to job loss, poverty means a perpetually tight budget.
Scarcity connects more than just Sendhil's and Shawn's problems: it forms a common chord across so many of society's problems. These problems occur in different cultures, economic conditions, and political systems, but they all feature scarcity. Could there be a common logic to scarcity, one that operates across these diverse backdrops?
We had to answer this question. We were too busy not to.
Our interest in scarcity led us to a remarkable study from more than a half century ago. The authors of that study did not think of themselves as studying scarcity, but to our eyes they were studying an extreme form of it—starvation. It was toward the end of World War II, and the Allies realized they had a problem. As they advanced into German-occupied territories, they would encounter great numbers of people on the edge of starvation. The problem was not food; the Americans and British had enough to feed the prisoners and the civilians they were liberating. Their problem was more technical. How do you begin feeding people who have been on the edge of starvation for so long? Should they be given full meals? Should they be allowed to eat as much as they want? Or should you start by underfeeding them and slowly increase their intake? What was the safest way to bring people back from the edge of starvation?
The experts at the time had few answers. So a team at the University of Minnesota conducted an experiment to find out. Understanding how to feed people, though, requires first starving them. The experiment started with healthy male volunteers in a controlled environment where their calories were reduced until they were subsisting on just enough food so as not to permanently harm themselves. After a few months of this, the real experiment began: finding out how their bodies responded to different feeding regimens. Not an easy experiment to be a subject in, but this was "the Good War," and conscientious objectors who did not go to the front were willing to do their part.
The thirty-six subjects in the study were housed in a dormitory and were carefully monitored, with every behavior observed and noted. Though the researchers cared most about the feeding part of the study, they also measured the impact of starvation. Much of what happens to starving bodies is quite graphic. Subjects lost so much fat on their butts that sitting became painful; the men had to use pillows. Actual weight loss was complicated by edema—the men accumulated as much as fourteen pounds of extra fluid due to starvation. Their metabolism slowed down by 40 percent. They lost strength and endurance. As one subject put it, "I notice the weakness in my arms when I wash my hair in the shower; they become completely fatigued in the course of this simple operation."
Not only did their bodies weaken; their minds changed as well. Sharman Apt Russell describes a lunch scene in her book Hunger:
The men became impatient waiting in line if the service was slow. They were possessive about their food. Some hunched over their trays using their arms to protect their meal. Mostly they were silent, with the concentration that eating deserved. . . . Dislikes for certain foods, such as rutabagas, disappeared. All food was eaten to the last bite. Then they licked their plates.
This is largely what you might expect of people who are starving. But some mental changes they showed were more unexpected:
Obsessions developed around cookbooks and menus from local restaurants. Some men could spend hours comparing the prices of fruits and vegetables from one newspaper to the next. Some planned now to go into agriculture. They dreamed of new careers as restaurant owners. . . . They lost their will for academic problems and became far more interested in cookbooks. . . . When they went to the movies, only the scenes with food held their interest.
They were focused on food. Of course if you are starving, getting more food should be a priority. But their minds focused in a way that transcended practical benefits. The delusions of starting a restaurant, comparing food prices, and researching cookbooks will not alleviate hunger. If anything, all this thinking about food—almost a fixation—surely heightened the pain of hunger. They did not choose this. Here is how one participant in the Minnesota study recalled the frustration of constantly thinking about food:
I don't know many other things in my life that I looked forward to being over with any more than this experiment. And it wasn't so much . . . because of the physical discomfort, but because it made food the most important thing in one's life . . . food became the one central and only thing really in one's life. And life is pretty dull if that's the only thing. I mean, if you went to a movie, you weren't particularly interested in the love scenes, but you noticed every time they ate and what they ate.
The hungry men did not choose to ignore the plot in favor of the food. They did not choose to put food at the top of their mind. Instead, hunger captured their thinking and their attention. These behaviors were only a footnote in the Minnesota study, not at all what the researchers were interested in. To us, they illustrate how scarcity changes us.
Scarcity captures the mind. Just as the starving subjects had food on their mind, when we experience scarcity of any kind, we become absorbed by it. The mind orients automatically, powerfully, toward unfulfilled needs. For the hungry, that need is food. For the busy it might be a project that needs to be finished. For the cash-strapped it might be this month's rent payment; for the lonely, a lack of companionship. Scarcity is more than just the displeasure of having very little. It changes how we think. It imposes itself on our minds.
This is a lot to infer from just one study. Starvation is an extreme case: it involves scarcity but it also involves many other physiological changes. The study had only thirty-six subjects. The evidence we cite consists largely of the mutterings of hungry men, not hard numbers. But many other, more precise studies have shown the same results. Not only that, they give a window into exactly how scarcity captures the mind.
One recent study asked subjects to come to a lab around lunchtime, not having eaten for three to four hours. Half of these hungry subjects were sent out to grab lunch, the others weren't. So half were hungry and half were sated. Their task in the study was simple: Watch a screen. A word will flash. Identify the word you just saw. So, for example, TAKE might flash and the subjects would have to decide whether they just saw TAKE or RAKE. This seems a trivial task and it would have been except that everything happened quickly. Very quickly. The word itself flashes for 33 milliseconds—that is, 1/30 of a second.
Now you might think that the hungry subjects might do worse, being tired and unfocused from their hunger. But on this particular task, they did as well as the sated subjects. Except in one case. The hungry did much better on food-related words. They were much more likely to accurately detect the word CAKE. Tasks such as these are designed to tell us what is at the top of someone's mind. When a concept occupies our thoughts, we see words related to it more quickly. So when the hungry recognize CAKE more quickly, we see directly that food is at the top of their minds. Here we do not rely on odd behaviors such as leafing through cookbooks or making plans to be a restaurateur to infer their fixation. The speed and accuracy of their responses directly show us that scarcity has captured the hungry subjects' minds.
And it does so on a subconscious level. The tiny time scales in this task—outcomes measured in milliseconds—were devised to observe fast processes, fast enough to remain beyond conscious control. We now know enough about the brain to know what these time scales mean. Complex higher-order calculations require more than 300 milliseconds. Faster responses rely on more automatic subconscious processes. So when the hungry recognize CAKE more quickly, it is not because they choose to focus more on this word. It happens faster than they could choose to do anything. This is why we use the word capture when describing how scarcity focuses the mind.
This phenomenon is not specific to hunger. One study finds that when subjects are thirsty, they are much quicker (again at the level of tens of milliseconds) to recognize the word WATER. In all these cases, scarcity operates unconsciously. It captures attention whether the mind's owner wishes it or not.
Now, both thirst and hunger are physical cravings. Other, less visceral forms of scarcity also capture the mind. In one study, children were asked to estimate from memory, by adjusting a physical device, the size of regular U.S. coins—from a penny to a half-dollar. The coins "looked" largest to the poorer children, who significantly overestimated the size of the coins. The most valuable coins—the quarter and half-dollar—were the most distorted. Just as food captures the focus of the hungry, the coins captured the focus of poor children. The increased focus made these coins "look" bigger. Now, it's possible that poor children are simply unskilled at remembering size. So the researchers had the kids estimate sizes with the coins in front of them, an even simpler task. In fact, the poor children made even bigger errors with the coins in front of them. The real coins drew even more focus than did the abstract ones in memory. (And with no coins around, the kids were highly accurate at estimating similarly sized cardboard disks.)
The capture of attention can alter experience. During brief and highly focused events, such as car accidents and robberies, for example, the increased engagement of attention brings about what researchers call the "subjective expansion of time," a feeling that such events last longer, precisely because of the greater amount of information that is processed. Similarly, scarcity's capture of attention affects not only what we see or how fast we see it but also how we interpret the world. One study of the lonely flashed pictures of faces for one second and asked subjects to describe which emotion was being expressed. Were the faces conveying anger, fear, happiness, or sadness? This simple task measures a key social skill: the ability to understand what others are feeling. Remarkably, the lonely do better at this task. You might have thought they would do worse—after all, their loneliness might imply social ineptitude or inexperience. But this superior performance makes sense when you consider the psychology of scarcity. It is just what you would predict if the lonely focus on their own form of scarcity, on managing social contacts. They ought to be particularly attuned to reading emotions.
This implies that the lonely should also show greater recall for social information. One study asked people to read from someone's diary and to form an impression of the writer. Later they were asked to recall details from the diary entries. The lonely did about as well as the nonlonely. Except in one case: they were much better at remembering the entries that involved social content, such as interactions with others.
The authors of this study relay an anecdote that nicely summarizes how loneliness changes focus: Bradley Smith, unlucky in love and lacking close friends, finds his perception changes after a divorce.
Suddenly, Bradley cannot escape noticing connections between people—couples and families—in exquisite and painful detail. At one time or another, Bradley's plight may have befallen most of us. Perhaps, similar to Bradley, a romantic relationship ends, and you find yourself noticing lovers holding hands in the park. Or your first days in a new school or job place you in a world of strangers, in which each smile, scowl, or glance in your direction assumes added significance.
Bradley, you might say, is the social equivalent of the starving men, leafing through his own cookbooks.
When we told an economist colleague that we were studying scarcity, he remarked, "There is already a science of scarcity. You might have heard of it. It's called economics." He was right, of course. Economics is the study of how we use our limited means to achieve our unlimited desires; how people and societies manage physical scarcity. If you spend money on a new coat, you have less money for a dinner out. If the government spends money on an experimental procedure for prostate cancer, there is less money for highway safety. It is remarkable how frequently otherwise clever discussions tend to overlook trade-offs (an oversight that our theory helps explain). Other economic insights come from the recognition that physical scarcity responds to prices, sometimes in unexpected ways. European paleontologists in nineteenth-century China learned this the hard way. Seeking to acquire scarce dinosaur bones, they paid villagers for bone fragments. The result? Supply responded. More bone fragments. When peasants found bones, they would smash them to increase the number of pieces they could sell. Not quite what the paleontologists were hoping for.
Our approach to scarcity is different. In economics, scarcity is ubiquitous. All of us have a limited amount of money; even the richest people cannot buy everything. But we suggest that while physical scarcity is ubiquitous, the feeling of scarcity is not. Imagine a day at work where your calendar is sprinkled with a few meetings and your to-do list is manageable. You spend the unscheduled time by lingering at lunch or at a meeting or calling a colleague to catch up. Now, imagine another day at work where your calendar is chock-full of meetings. What little free time you have must be sunk into a project that is overdue. In both cases time was physically scarce. You had the same number of hours at work and you had more than enough activities to fill them. Yet in one case you were acutely aware of scarcity, of the finiteness of time; in the other it was a distant reality, if you felt it at all. The feeling of scarcity is distinct from its physical reality.
Where does the feeling of scarcity come from? Physical limits, of course, play a role—the money in our savings account, the debts we owe, the tasks we must complete. But so does our subjective perception of what matters: how much do we need to accomplish? How important is that purchase? Such desires are shaped by culture, upbringing, even genetics. We may deeply desire something because of our physiology or because our neighbor has it. Just as how cold we feel depends not only on absolute temperature but also on our own private metabolism, so the feeling of scarcity depends on both what is available and on our own tastes. Many scholars—sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, psychiatrists, and even marketers—have tried to decipher what accounts for these tastes. In this book, we largely avoid that discussion. We let preferences be what they are and focus instead on the logic and the consequences of scarcity: What happens to our minds when we feel we have too little, and how does that shape our choices and our behaviors?
As a blunt approximation, most disciplines, including economics, say the same thing about this question. The consequence of having less than we want is simple: we are unhappy. The poorer we are, the fewer nice things we can afford—be it a house in a good school district or as little as salt and sugar to flavor our food. The busier we are, the less leisure time we can enjoy—be it watching television or spending time with our families. The fewer calories we can afford, the fewer foods we can savor. And so on. Having less is unpleasant. And it can have repercussions, for example, on health, safety, or education. Scarcity leads to dissatisfaction and struggle.
While certainly true, we think this misses something critical. Scarcity is not just a physical constraint. It is also a mindset. When scarcity captures our attention, it changes how we think—whether it is at the level of milliseconds, hours, or days and weeks. By staying top of mind, it affects what we notice, how we weigh our choices, how we deliberate, and ultimately what we decide and how we behave. When we function under scarcity, we represent, manage, and deal with problems differently. Some fields have studied mindsets created by particular instances of scarcity: how dieting affects mood, or how a particular cultural context might affect the attitudes of the local poor. We are proposing something much more universal: Scarcity, in every form, creates a similar mindset. And this mindset can help explain many of the behaviors and the consequences of scarcity.
When scarcity captures the mind, we become more attentive and efficient. There are many situations in our lives where maintaining focus can be challenging. We procrastinate at work because we keep getting distracted. We buy overpriced items at the grocery store because our minds are elsewhere. A tight deadline or a shortage of cash focuses us on the task at hand. With our minds riveted, we are less prone to careless error. This makes perfect sense: scarcity captures us because it is important, worthy of our attention.
But we cannot fully choose when our minds will be riveted. We think about that impending project not only when we sit down to work on it but also when we are at home trying to help our child with her homework. The same automatic capture that helps us focus becomes a burden in the rest of life. Because we are preoccupied by scarcity, because our minds constantly return to it, we have less mind to give to the rest of life. This is more than a metaphor. We can directly measure mental capacity or, as we call it, bandwidth. We can measure fluid intelligence, a key resource that affects how we process information and make decisions. We can measure executive control, a key resource that affects how impulsively we behave. And we find that scarcity reduces all these components of bandwidth—it makes us less insightful, less forward-thinking, less controlled. And the effects are large. Being poor, for example, reduces a person's cognitive capacity more than going one full night without sleep. It is not that the poor have less bandwidth as individuals. Rather, it is that the experience of poverty reduces anyone's bandwidth.
When we think of the poor, we naturally think of a shortage of money. When we think of the busy, or the lonely, we think of a shortage of time, or of friends. But our results suggest that scarcity of all varieties also leads to a shortage of bandwidth. And because bandwidth affects all aspects of behavior, this shortage has consequences. We saw this with Sendhil and Shawn. The challenges of sticking to a plan, the inability to resist a new leather jacket or a new project, the forgetfulness (the car registration, making a phone call, paying a bill) and the cognitive slips (the misestimated bank account balance, the mishandled invitation) all happen because of a shortage of bandwidth. There is one particularly important consequence: it further perpetuates scarcity. It was not a coincidence that Sendhil and Shawn fell into a trap and stayed there. Scarcity creates its own trap.
This provides a very different explanation for why the poor stay poor, why the busy stay busy, why the lonely stay lonely, and why diets often fail. To understand these problems, existing theories turn to culture, personality, preferences, or institutions. What attitudes do the indebted have toward money and credit? What are the work habits of the overly busy? What cultural norms and constructed preferences guide the food choices of the obese? Our results suggest something much more fundamental: many of these problems can be understood through the mindset of scarcity. This is not to say that culture, economic forces, and personality do not matter. They surely do. But scarcity has its own logic, one that operates on top of these other forces.
Analyzing these scarcity traps together does not imply that all forms of scarcity have consequences of the same magnitude. The scarcity mindset can operate with far greater import in one context than in another. The structure of human memory, for example, can be used to understand everything from the trivial (why we forget our keys) to the important (the credibility of eyewitnesses) to the tragic (the onset of Alzheimer's). Likewise, though the logic of scarcity can be similar across different domains, its impact can be quite different. This will be particularly true when we analyze the case of poverty. The circumstances of poverty can be far more extreme, often associated with contexts that are more challenging and less forgiving. The bandwidth tax, for example, is likely to be larger for the poor than for the busy or for dieters. For this reason, we will later pay special attention to the poor.
In a way, our argument in this book is quite simple. Scarcity captures our attention, and this provides a narrow benefit: we do a better job of managing pressing needs. But more broadly, it costs us: we neglect other concerns, and we become less effective in the rest of life. This argument not only helps explain how scarcity shapes our behavior; it also produces some surprising results and sheds new light on how we might go about managing our scarcity.
This book describes a "science in the making," an attempt to unravel the psychological underpinnings of scarcity and to use that knowledge to understand a large variety of social and behavioral phenomena. Much of the book draws on original research conducted in settings ranging from university laboratories, shopping malls, and train stations, to soup kitchens in New Jersey and sugar cane fields in India. We also revisit older studies (such as the hunger study) through the lens of our new hypothesis, reinterpreting them in ways that the original authors probably did not anticipate. We use this evidence to build our case, to put forward a new perspective.
One advantage of working on something so new is that it can be presented to experts and nonexperts alike. Because our argument relies on a variety of fields, from cognitive science to development economics, few people will be experts in all these areas, and most will be novices for at least some of the material we present. To accommodate this, we have worked hard to make the whole book, even the technical parts, easily accessible to a wide audience. We also use anecdotes and vignettes extensively. Of course, these never serve as substitutes for careful evidence, but they are used to make concepts intuitive, to bring ideas to life. Ultimately, the strength of our argument will naturally rely on the evidence we present. For the readers who would like greater technical detail, we have included extensive endnotes. More than merely providing references, these discuss details of studies presented, mention other studies that seemed too tangential to include but still relevant, and generally allow you to go even deeper should you find something of particular interest.
This book is not meant to be the final word. It raises a new perspective on an age-old problem, one that ought to be seriously entertained. Anytime there is a new way of thinking, there are also new implications to be derived, new magnitudes to be deciphered, and new consequences to be understood. There is much more to be done, and in that sense our book is an invitation—a front-row seat to a process of discovery.
Copyright © 2013 by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir
Meet the Author
Sendhil Mullainathan, a professor of economics at Harvard University, is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and conducts research on development economics, behavioral economics, and corporate finance. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Eldar Shafir is the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He conducts research in cognitive science, judgment and decision-making, and behavioral economics. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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One of the best books I've read this year. Very interesting insights, based on experimental and real-world evidence, using the concept of "cognitive bandwidth," to explore how we make poor decisions under the stress of scarcity. The main, universal forms of scarcity the authors explore are of time, money, and social contact, but the ideas could apply elsewhere. Excellent writing - they circle back to some of their prime examples, but with new insights in hand, and it never felt repetitive. One minor weakness was when they got into what they imply is a mirror-image problem of abundance. With weak theoretical or empirical support, this part felt shaky and speculative, but it's a brief addendum that doesn't hurt the whole book. The authors show how scarcity affects their own lives, including in the writing of this book, and their sense of humor is a nice asset.
This book breaks down scarcity and lean times in easy to understand language. It reminds me of FREAKANOMICS. I did not have to know anything about economics. A layperson can understand what the authors are saying. There is humor in it. I laughed but I also was able to see how I do the same things the poor (or the busy) do in regards to good times versus lean times (extra time versus deadlines). I hope that I will make the necessary changes to save during prosperous times (or free time) for the lean times. It opened my eyes to what I am doing wrong and proposes what I can do for the future. I received this book from the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review.


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Something wasn't looking right. It certainly seemed unlikely to me that the scholars of transcendentalism, who, after all, have been mining a very small body of texts for a very long time now, could have missed a signed article by a noted, if not central figure, in the transcendentalist journal. And they didn't. A little time in the archives this morning proved what I had begun to suspect from a close look at the electronic texts - there is only one article by William B. Greene in the Dial, but there are two listed in APS Online, separately indexed, without clear page numbers, and out of order in the issue index. For the record, what APS calls "Beauty, Justice and Harmony" is actually the last three pages of "First Principles." Fortunately, the archives at BGSU have a set of the Dial reprints and, after some running around by the archivists, it only took a second to clarify the matter.
So, a word or two to the wise: if you're using electronic resources, make use of the page maps if they're available. If you're archiving material, try to provide some means of establishing the relationships between elements in a bound volume.
That erases one of the potential new W B Greene texts, but there's still some cause for celebration. "Song of Espousal" pretty clearly now has earliest publication honors, and there appear to be two essays by Greene in Massachusetts Teacher and Journal of Home and School Education, "What Is The Minus Quantity?" and "Influence," that have gone unremarked.

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Arlovski, Johnson Don't Need to Hype WSOF 2 Heavyweight Tilt
By Harold E. Kemp
Andrei Arlovski prefers to do his talking in the cage, and that is just fine
with Anthony Johnson.
The heavyweights will headline World Series of Fighting 2 at the Revel
in Atlantic City on March 23, but they're keeping their prefight banter
very civil.
"Andrei has been in every battle you can think of, so he has no reason
to talk," Johnson said at an announcement for the fight during the MMA
World Expo in Manhattan on Saturday. "He's one of those guys who
will just go in there and fight and just do what he has to do to win. I'm
looking forward to that."
The 11-fight card will be the sophomore effort for the Las Vegas-based
organization, and the first of a new three-year deal with NBC Sports
Network. The network is seen in about 80 million U.S. homes.
"It's going to be a great show," said WSOF President Ray Sefo, a former
champion kickboxer, boxer and MMA fighter. "We've got some of the
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Johnson and Arlovski each fought on the inaugural WSOF card on
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Johnson, 28, said he didn't appreciate the verbal barbs from then
opponent D.J. Linderman prior to WSOF 1, and used a thunderous right
hand to exact revenge via a first-round KO in that light heavyweight
bout. It was the fourth straight win and 10th knockout of Johnson's
career, and improved his record to 14-4.
Known as "Rumble," Johnson began his career at welterweight but has
often struggled to make weight in different divisions. The fight with
Arlovski will mark his heavyweight debut, which he called a one-time
"I was presented with the opportunity to fight Andrei Arlovski and of
course I'm the type of guy to take any fight," said Johnson, who trains
with the Blackzilians in Florida. "He's a warrior, and this organization is
doing so many things for the sport. I'm just excited to be a part of it."
Arlovski, known as "Pit Bull," also won at WSOF 1, stopping Devin Cole
with punches in the first round. Arlovski then decisioned Mike Hayes
at Fight Nights in Moscow in December, winning his fifth-straight and
improving his record to 20-9 with 15 knockouts.
The former UFC heavyweight champion has knocked out four of his
last five opponents. Arlovski, 34, said training with Greg Jackson in
Albuquerque, NM, and signing with WSOF has allowed him to rebuild
his career.
"I have a lot of goals I have to reach, and Anthony is a tough opponent
for me," Arlovski said. "This is a very important step for my MMA career.
I'm in my rightful place, and I'm training with the right people and very
In the co-main event, Tyson Nam (12-4) battles Marlon Moraes (9-4) in
a bantamweight fight. Nam has won four straight fights, including three
by knockout. Moraes earned a split decision win against Miguel Torres
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"We're two really feisty, scrappy fighters and we're going to clash and
clash hard," Nam said.
David Branch (11-3) returns for another middleweight fight, this time
against former Pride legend Paulo Filho (23-4).
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said of Filho. "I used to watch him back in his Pride days, and I just want
him to be the best Paulo Filho when he gets in there."
In a welterweight bout, Josh Burkman (24-9) takes on Aaron Simpson
(12-4), while lightweights Gesias Cavalcante (16-6) and Justin Gaethje
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Warm-Up Run
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(Lets see if you can get through it. If not, then you're too scared about your past.)
-Longest relationship:
Depends upon definition of the word, never dated regularly
-How many boyfriends/girlfriends have told you that they loved you?
-How many of them meant it when they said they loved you?
-Have you ever thought you were going to marry the person you were with?
-Have you ever loved someone so much that it hurt?
a little
-Have you ever made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry?
i don't think so
-Are you happier single or in a relationship?
-Have you ever been cheated on?
-Have you ever had your heart broken?
have to have a heart first
-Have you ever broken someone's heart?
-Talk to any of your ex's?
-Think any of your ex's still feel the same way they did about you when you were dating?
-Do you believe that you are a good boyfriend/girlfriend?
no. i'm horrible
-Ever dated someone that wasn't good to you?
not "dated"
-Have you been in an abusive relationship?
-Have you dated someone older than you?
not by much
-Dated someone younger than you?
-Do you regret anything that you have or haven't done with a boyfriend/girlfriend?
-Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance?
not everyone. like pedophiles don't. first time felons do
-Believe in love at first sight?
not the kind that might last
-Ever dated two people at once?
-Ever been given an engagement ring?
nope. this isn't awkward at all
-Do you have something to say to any of your ex's?
Still alive out there?
-Ever stolen someone's boyfriend/girlfriend?
eh, no
-Ever liked someone else's boyfriend/girlfriend?
the kid with the hat /sigh
-Does heartbreak really feel as bad as it sounds?
Name: Laura
Birth Date: September 19
Current Location: bedroom
Hair Color: brown
Righty/Lefty: right
Your fear: lack of internet/ability to connect to everything
Your dream of the perfect date: chillin, maybe smoking, maybe playing video games. keep the romance on the DL, it wierds me out
Goal you'd like to achieve: harmonica, learn to dance, become a master of a craft
Your best friend: Emily, maybe Sara sometimes
Your thoughts first waking up: nrgh?
Your best physical feature: back of my neck, face
Your bed time: when i can't figure anything else to do online
Your most missed memory: having a friend whose sentences I could finish without getting into a bitch off or worrying that we aren't interested in the same things anymore
Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi. Addiction blows
McDonald's or Burger King: mcky d's
Single or Group Dates: Fuck buddies?
Adidas or Nike: never worn either
Chocolate or Vanilla: vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee
Smoke: once in a while
Cuss: would liked to think i could stop
Take showers: once week
Have a crush: No. And I miss it.
Like(d) school: yes. hate the work, liked that I am forced to be social
Believe in yourself: I presume this is about self-confidence. Yes. I could be an astronaut if I really wanted to.
Believe what goes around comes around: Nope.
Believe everything happens for a reason: nope.
Think you're a health freak: i shower on a week to week basis, so no? I also might have lyme disease but I don' give a shit. I'll probably live
Gone to the mall: nah
Been on stage: nope
Eaten sushi: yes
Been hurt: yea, huge fucking bruise on my leg for a while
Dyed your hair: Nope
Played a stripping game: yea
Kissed the same sex: yep
Got beaten up: yes, but he got his and probably had a crush on me since it was fucking middle school
Changed who you were to fit in: always, only time i don't is with close friends
Age you're hoping to be married by: not sure if I even want to. I've always been alone, think it suits me
Number of kids you're planning on having: Not sure i want any. see above
Best eye color: Green
Best hair color: black. mmmm azns
Short or long hair: short on boys, w/es on girls
Looks or personality: personality
Fun or serious: totally srs rghtnow.
1 MINUTE AGO: Before this survey, setting up an asian cinema blooog.
1 HOUR AGO: finagling bagels
1 WEEK AGO: slave labor
1 YEAR AGO: Trying to find a job and to forget all the shit
I FEEL: a bit sad when I think about it. BUT YOU CAN'T TELL CAN YOU HAH
I HATE: this rash on my knees
I HIDE: my hatred of most everyone I know
I NEED: moar chicken nuggets
I LOVE: spaceships
What is a food that you'd hate to be allergic to?:
um, tomatos would be kinda tough.
What color was the last towel you used?:
light blue
Would you prefer to date someone taller, shorter, or the same height as you?
way taller. and manly.
When was the last time your nose bled?
Yesterday. took a door to the face
How old are you turning this year?:
20 fuck me
What is your favorite thing to snack on while watching a movie?:
Swimming pool or hot tub?:
Can you swim well?
ye, holy fuk this quiz is long
What body part do you wash first in the shower?:
I'm never gonna get that blog set up if this takes this fucking long
Who would you allow to read your thoughts for one day?
anybody. you'd realize how mean I really am.
What kind of first impression do you think you make?
timid, aloof, or something quiet-like. dunno, i've never met me.
Name your last reason for using a camera?
sunrise looked cool
Where was the last place you fell asleep other than your bed?
fell to my floor last night
What are you excited about?
atashinchi no danchi episode seven getting subtitles this weekend.
Seven days from now, will you be in a relationship?
nope. and my best friend is ditching the town, so I'm left with all these fuckers that I kinda can't fucking stand
Are you a happy person?
always. it rocks to be me
When was the last time you laughed really hard & why?
today. watching old nakatsu clips from japanese Hana kimi. He's so fucking adorable and funny WITNESS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0eKqQY4
What are you wearing?sweatshirt jeans
What do you want?
subbers to work faster
Did you enjoy your weekend?
yea. til i got this rash
Do you regret anything you've done recently?
Is there anybody you wish you could see?
yep, almost always
Have you ever kissed anyone with a name that start s with J or M?
How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?
Matt, Drew, Sam, Bryan, my brothers, Dan, Sam G
Do you think you'll be married in 10 years?
What makes you mad most about girls?
They don't say what they mean
Have you ever been given roses?
yes /blush
Do you even like getting flowers?
not particularly
What's your favorite flowers?
lily of the valley probably
Will you be in a relationship 4 months from now?
probably not. maybe tho
Does it bother you when your friends bring up your past mistakes?
I don't make mistakes (but yea, of course)
Could you go out in public looking like you do now?
Can you be your complete self around the person you like?
Whose the first person you texted today?
my boss
Would you move to another state to be with the person you loved?
What did the last IM to make you smile say?
From izumi, telling me what makes oguri shun so great. she was right
Do you ever get a text saying good morning?
never. no one's that dependent upon my attention.
Last movie you watched and who did you watch it with?
neighbor no. 13. alone because no one else cares about this shit
What are you doing tomorrow?
How's the weather today?
rainy : )
Where is the person you need most right now?
somewhere in new jersey
What color are your eyes?
hazel like every other white person
Do you like poptarts?
most assuredly
Where will you be 12 hours from now?
at work
Is it easy for others to make you feel intimidated?
Yes. Fuckers.
Do you know what you are going to wear tomorrow?
pants, long sleeves, scoks
Where's your girlfriend/boyfriend at?
the distant future
Are you on a desktop or laptop?
Does anyone hate you for no reason?
no, i gave them a reason
Can you make yourself cry?
What are you planning to do today?
the rest of today? set up that blog
Play an instrument?
Would you go back in time if you were given the chance?
KURT COBAIN. I'd realy perfer the future. Want a spaceship.
What are your favorite colors?
reds, yellow greens, light light blues, sweet purples, and greys
Where did you get the underwear you are wearing right now?
Have you ever kissed someone whose name starts with an R?
Have you ever passed out?
Are you easily confused?
depends on the idiot doing the confusing
Do you think you would make a good wife/husband?
I'd make a decent husband
What's your favorite kind of ice cream?
Do you like coffee?
Do you like summer?
it's ok
Is your current hair color mostly your natural hair color?
yes. i want some colors tho, bored.
What color are your socks?
Where were you at 8am this morning?
Do you fall for people easily?
instantanously in and out. Currently out, want to find someone to crush on : (
Everything happens for a reason?
no, you already said that
Have you ever dated someone more than once?
no, well. "dated"
Who have you texted in the last 24 hours?
nobody. all by my lonesome
Last thing you got in the mail?
bank statement
What is your current crave?
jdoramas comedy
What color nail polish is on your toes?
Do you find members of the preferred sex confusing?
Not at all.
When is the last time you saw number 2 on your top friends?
Holy fuck, I'm going to start calling Emily "number one".... and saying 'make it so'
What are you listening to right now?
the sound of my pepsi carbonation fizzling away
How has the week been?
pretty crap
What do you like about the person you like?
Don't like anybody, but if I had to force and push a crush, I'd say it's his unavailability and relentless friendliness. Smiling even when people are being dicks. because he's smart enough to think it's funny.
Is there something you wish you could tell someone but can't?
No. If I can't say it it's because I don't want to say it.
What are your biggest turn offs?
narcisism, ironic I know. lack of self-awareness. inconsiderate behavoir.
Favorite shirt to wear?
Favorite drink?
Last person to say 'I love you' to you?
Ted Gill.
I was leaving drew's. Sara said it to ted and then me. Then ted said it to sara and then me. I said it to sara, and awkwardly told ted I don't really know him that well.
Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?
What's your favorite color gummy bear?
aren't they all the same
What is the nicest part of the opposite sex's body?
hands bigger than mine
Have you ever run into a dishwasher?
Ever had a song sung about/for you?
No, one once started, but he realized it would just make me feel wierd, because i suck at romance
Is there a baby in the room with you right now?
Do you know how to dance?
no. doesn't stop me if I want to.
Where do you sing the most, in the car, the shower or other?
the car. definately
What is your favorite thing that is green?
The ArmY! no, rly, probably aparagus
What did your last text message say?
can you pick up some eggs. the order didn't come in today
What is the way to your heart?
A hatred of romance and love of geeky random fucking shit. oh how i crave a geek friend that I know IRL
What do you smell like?
What's in your pocket?
paycheck, wallet, multitool, watch, phone
Anything in your mouth?
Ever hurt yourself playing Wii?
lol no
Do you have freckles?
i have a dot on my face
How many languages can you say "Hello" in?
who cares
What's the last movie you saw in the theater?
Ever jumped/fallen/been pushed in a pool with your clothes on?
Are you wearing any clothes that you wore yesterday?
Name a song that you know all the words to:
fuck, i have to go look at itunes
you know i fucking miss winamp
What's the last thing you watched on TV?
Good man - third eye blind
What's the last video game you played?
DDR for shits and iggles
Can you do the alphabet in sign language?
Do you wear glasses?
always always
What can you hear right now?
Mom and dad bitching about how fucking fucked up everything has gotten : (
Did you feel better or worse or the same yesterday?
about the same level of shitty
What was your favorite childhood show?
next gen,
Are you close to your siblings?
i thought so
Do you bite your nails?
Do you like your feet?
they're fine
Do you sleep well at night?
once i'm asleep I'm fine. takes a while and drugs to get there sometimes


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A/N: My second Castle fic. This is written in Castle's point of view. It's the first time I've ever written anything first person so I hope it's okay. I was thinking about doing another chapter of this same story, except put it in Beckett's POV. If anyone would like to see that tell me in a review and I'll be glad to do it. I hope you like it and reviews are amazing (so please review!)! Thanks! :)
(oh, please keep in mind that I'm not a doctor and all that medical stuff is completely made up. So if it's incorrect...sorry)
Disclaimer: Castle doesn't belong to me.
I couldn't believe it.
As I heard the shot and watched her take a few steps backwards and then crumple, falling to the ground, I still couldn't believe it. I wanted to run to her, to apologize, to beg her to be alive, but my legs seemed to be disconnected to my brain. I was frozen. I wouldn't have believed that I was still breathing if I couldn't hear my heart pounding in my ears.
The next things I hear are the sirens and shouts. This seems to snap me out of my brief shock and I began to run, feeling Esposito and Ryan close on my heels. Other police officers were arriving, and I heard shouts of "Someone call 911!"
I couldn't concentrate on anything. I knew that if she didn't make it out of this, it would be my fault. I was the one who had come up with the brilliant plan. I always acted before I thought about the consequences. But that was me. Kate knew about the consequences of what could happen if this went wrong. We had talked about it, all of us at the precinct. She said that she wasn't scared. She was a cop, she had to be brave. She risked her life everyday, so why was this time any different?
The murder was a creep who only went after women. We found out everything about him—we got in his head. But we still couldn't catch him. The little dirtbag would slip through our fingers every single time, and then go off to kill someone else. We had to do something. That's when I came up with my plan. Get a woman, beautiful and fearless, and use her as bait. It was sort of twisted but it was the only thing that I could see working. The others had agreed, and Kate had volunteered herself.
Everything was going smoothly. We, meaning Ryan, Esposito, and myself, had caught site of the killer following Beckett around. He had taken the bait, and we were nearly ready to spring into action and apprehend him when he turned the tables on us. The killer, who had been notorious for his torturous killings by stabbing his victims to death, pulled a gun out of his jacket, pulled the trigger, and took off running.
I finally made it to Beckett and dropped to my knees. Ryan and Esposito were beside me, but I didn't even notice. Kate had been shot in the chest, and her blood was seeping through her clothes. I looked into her eyes and saw that they were wide and full of fear. She was having trouble breathing, and began to cough up blood.
Where the hell were the paramedics at? She needed help, now!
"Hold on." I said, taking her ice-cold hand in mine. "Hold on Kate. You're going to be fine. Just hold on."
Her eyes focused on mine and for the first time since I had known her, I saw Kate Beckett completely terrified. Even when we were being shot at, chased, or whatever else in God's name that we had gotten into, I'd never seen her this terrified.
But she'd never been dying before, either.
The sirens of an ambulance began to blare and the next moment two paramedics were rushing towards us with a stretcher. I moved out of the way while they loaded Kate on and I followed them back to the ambulance.
"Can I go too? Please?" I asked one of the paramedics. He looked at me, and I was praying that he wasn't going to say no. If he did, I was prepared to beg, bribe, or do whatever the hell else it took. This was my fault. Plus, if I was in Kate's situation I would be scared to death to be stuck in an ambulance all alone thinking that I was going to die.
The paramedic seemed to consider, and finally he said, "Okay,"
I breathed a small sigh of relief and then followed him into the ambulance. I took a seat on the side and did my best to stay out of the way while they tried to save her.
"We're losing her!" The one who I had spoken to exclaimed. I began to panic.
"Beckett? Don't give up!" I exclaimed, grabbing her hand again. I watched her eyes fluttering as she fought to stay conscious. "Kate, they're going to save you. Just hold on until we get to the hospital okay? Just hold on."
I continued to talk to her the entire way to the hospital, doing my best to keep her conscious. If there was one thing about Kate Beckett, it was that she was a fighter. I'm pretty sure I would have given up hope long ago if I was the one in her position. She was amazing.
We finally made it to the emergency room. I stayed with them as long as I could. When they told me that I couldn't go any farther, I was led to a nearby waiting room by a petite nurse.
I was too nervous to sit, so I paced. Back and forth, back and forth, back and forth again and again and again. The few other people that were sitting in there watched me with tired eyes. It was the middle of the night, after all.
What would I do if she died? No…no…I can't be thinking like that. Beckett would make it out of this, and then probably break every bone in my body for coming up with this stupid, stupid, idea in the first place.
I looked up as two people walked into the waiting area. Esposito and Ryan. We exchanged worried looks and then they each took a seat, and I continued my pacing. I'm really not sure how long I had paced back and forth in the confined space, but it must have been awhile since the faces of the people began to blend together with the colors of the wall.
An elder couple who had been there since I arrived each stood up and left the room. Ryan, Esposito, and I were the only ones left now. I vaguely wondered if Kate was still in surgery or not.
The weariness of the day finally began to catch up to me as the first beams of sunlight filtered through the one and only window in the waiting area. I sat down heavily in the nearest chair to me and leaned my head back against the wall. It had been a long night, and it was probably going to be an even longer day. I figured that I should call Alexis and my mother, but maybe waiting until a reasonable hour would be smarter.
The doctor walked into the room and I stood up suddenly, Esposito and Ryan only about a half-second behind. We knew this had to be Beckett's doctor.
"Are you all here for Miss Kate Beckett?" He asked, knowing the answer already. I wondered why he even bothered to ask. Maybe it was some kind of hospital procedure thing. Hm.
"How is she?"
"Is she okay?"
"Can we see her?"
I spoke at the same time that Esposito and Ryan did. All of us stared at the doctor as he took a deep breath and then blew it out. I felt fear stirring inside me as I stared into his grey eyes. This was a doctor who had seen it all, you could tell. He'd probably had to tell families that their loved ones were gone more than once.
Of all the times to think of something utterly stupid, I picked now. I began to wonder what it was like to be Kate Beckett. Her mother was dead, she was an only child, and I hadn't heard her talk about her father that much. I wonder if he even knew she had been shot. In a strange, disfunctional way, I realized that Esposito and Ryan were like family to Beckett. I hope that someday she can think of me as more than the "arrogant, annoying author".
"I'm glad to inform you that she's going to make a full recovery."
The breath that all three of us seemed to have been holding whooshed out and I suddenly felt giddy. Now that I knew Kate was going to be okay it seemed like a huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders. I could almost bet that Ryan and Esposito felt the same way.
"She's going to have to stay here for a few days. The bullet punctured her lung and it collapsed. That was the worst of her injuries." The doctor explained. "She's been in the ICU for the last few hours and she just woke up. If you'd like to see her you can visit one at a time, but you can't stay any longer than ten minutes. She needs rest."
We all nodded and looked at each other, deciding who would go first. Esposito stepped forward.
The doctor nodded at him and turned, "I'll show you to her room."
Ryan and I both sat down as Esposito left with the doctor. I sighed and shut my eyes, letting a feeling of relief wash over me. That had been one of the worst experiences of my life.
"She's okay." Ryan stated. I could hear the relief in his voice, and imagine that it would sound the same in mine if I spoke.
"Thank God."
"You said it." Ryan grinned and I grinned right back at him.
A few minutes later and Esposito was back. His expression was unreadable as he gave us directions to her room. I told Ryan that he could go next. Esposito sat down beside me.
"How's she look?" I asked. I wasn't sure if I wanted to know.
"She's definitely been better." He said, glancing at me. "But at least she's alive."
I knew that Ryan and Esposito were incredibly protective over Beckett. Sure, they loved to tease and annoy her just like I did, but if something really bad happened, they'd be there for her. Just like I would.
Ryan came back sooner than I would have liked. I mean, yeah, I'm anxious to see Beckett and to make sure that she was completely fine, but I was also strangely nervous. I don't know…I guess it's the guilt. None of this would have happened if I hadn't suggested my plan.
I walked to her room and paused outside the door, thinking. Then I took a breath and entered.
The room was just like your typical hospital room. A small television was playing the morning news and there were a bunch of different machines surrounding the bed. And there was Kate, looking fragile and breakable lying there with an almost…annoyed?...expression on her face. I smiled.
"Hey, Beckett."
She turned to look at me and I saw the very faintest hint of a smile. "Castle." Her voice was quiet and tired.
I walked towards a chair that had been pulled up next to her bed, undoubtedly the same one that Esposito and Ryan had sat in. "Quite a night it's been…," I said, shaking my head slightly. "How do you feel?"
"Like I've been run over by a bus."
"Ah." I nodded, showing that I understood. I didn't know what else to say.
Beckett seemed to realize that too, because she saved me from the awkward silence by speaking.
"I really thought that it was the end there for a second." She coughed and grimaced. My hands twitched because I wanted to do something to help her, but I knew there was nothing. She continued quietly. "You know how they say your life flashes before your eyes when you're dying?"
I nodded.
"It's true." She shut her eyes for a moment, but then reopened them. I felt like I should leave. She was clearly exhausted. "And you know what?"
"My life sucks."
I looked at her, not quite sure if she was upset by this or what, and then I saw her smile. I laughed and rolled my eyes. "Kate Beckett, the hospital comedian."
"Mhm." She mumbled. She shut her eyes again and I smiled.
"Yeah well, Miss Hilarity, I suggest you get some rest." I stood up and hesitated, then I leaned down and kissed her forehead. "And get better soon. It's no fun solving cases without my muse."
She frowned and I figured that if she wasn't so tired she would have taken a swipe at me. "Don't call me your muse!"
I laughed and left the room.
She was still the same ol' Beckett.


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I mention this phrase because while Philip Glass has had many things said about him – glowing, reverential tributes and some of the most outrageously outraged reviews you'll ever read – I wonder if anyone's ever said that about him. Glass is a unique figure in modern music. When Soundcheck kicked off WNYC's Leonard Bernstein Festival last week, we wondered on-air whether there could ever be someone like Lenny, who was a major classical music figure but also an iconic figure of popular culture. In a fragmented media landscape, our guests all agreed that it was highly unlikely. But Philip Glass comes close. At this point, he has been an answer on Jeopardy, dragged willy-nilly into the animated world of South Park (the Christmas show from their first season), collaborated with Paul Simon, David Bowie, David Byrne, and many others, and has become one of the most easily identifiable composers of film scores anywhere. This last bit is no mean feat, given that his style is constantly being copied by others. He is very much a figure of American popular culture.
In fact, this is not a new phenomenon. Glass was entre chien et loup from the beginning. With his DIY approach, his amplified band, and his insistent, rhythmic, tonal music (at a time when "classical" music was largely atonal and cerebral) all set him apart. When I first heard his album Dance in the mid-70s, it seemed to me to be akin to some of the so-called Krautrock that was coming from progressive rock circles in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. In fact, it was about a year after starting my college radio rock show that someone finally pointed out to me that Philip Glass wasn't actually rock music. "Why do you play that classical composer on a rock show?" this colleague asked. I believe he was complaining, actually. Which a lot of people have done about Glass's music over the years - about 40 of them, in fact.
So Glass remains a lightning rod of controversy in the music world. Many who previously loathed his work now love it, and some of his strongest proponents now claim he's just rehashing old ideas in recent years. It's pretty remarkable when you think about it, that after 40 years in the public eye, he's still somewhere between a dog and a wolf.
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Coroner's officials ruled Houston drowned accidentally at the Beverly Hilton on February 11 and that heart disease and cocaine use contributed to her death.
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The water is high, the large, still pools almost up to my feet. I pick my way along the muddy track. The low sun is bright, casting shafts of light through the arching forms of willows and bushes growing in the marsh. Water rails squeal excitedly from deep inside the reed.
Thin, soft, cotton-white strands are floating in the warm, rising air, glistening in the sunshine. I catch one – it's spiders' silk. The young of some spider species spin these soft strands and catch the wind, dispersing to avoid competing with each other, but I can't see any spiders on the strands I find. I cross a small, stone bridge and jump down into a field of uninterested cattle. The track deteriorates into waterlogged grass and deep, muddy pools.
In the distance, a bird perches on top of a tall bush. It looks like a robin at first, but it's larger. Thick set, and with a pale grey head and back, the bird has a black "robber's mask" and a heavy bill, curved at the end into a sharp point. The great grey shrike looks around, cocking its long, black tail to balance itself. I pick a spot where I don't sink into the ground and watch. A bird of prey, also known as the "butcher bird", the shrike feeds on insects and small reptiles, mammals and birds – it's known for sometimes storing its prey by impaling it on thorns.
The shrike swoops down out of view, before flying back up to another perch, further along the line of bushes. It's hunting. There has been an influx of these birds in the past few weeks, pushed south by harsh weather in their Scandinavian breeding grounds. Some birds have been seen on nearby heathlands, but this is my first great grey shrike this year. It may not be the last – some individuals stay throughout the winter.


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Never Be With You
Because he'll never be with her. Not in this life, anyways.
This is a one-shot, based on James Blunt's 'You're Beautiful, It's True'. Thanks to anyone who read. (Pretty much no one. XP)
*9:00 am, Saturday Morning, New York*
"You have to mate, Greg! You know you'll die soon if you don't."
"Yeah, yeah, I know! But I haven't found her yet!" Greg snapped back at his father.
"Oh really?" Greg's father glared at him. "You have a WEEK left, Greg. Either you find her in three days, or you will be forced to mate with one of the pack females! SOMEBODY has to carry on the alpha line, and I don't care whether you do it with your mate, any random girl, or even your cousin! But we need you to be mated, the future of our entire pack depends on it!"
Greg doubled back as though he'd been hurt physically. "Yeah, dad?
Did someone force YOU to mate? Did someone tell you that if you didn't find your intended within three days, you would be stuck with some random bimbo, no less, have kids with her! Did you find mom, or did your dad grab some random girl from the pack and say to go get married to her?"
Greg's father regarded him with a cool intensity. "You turn 18 in seven days, Greg. We can't afford to have you die, just because you're stubborn! I don't care what my father did. I don't care what he didn't do. You have three days, that's final!"
"You know what? Damn you. I hope you drop dead on the floor right now, you cruel monster! What's next, locking me in my room because I was a naughty boy? Well, I don't care. It doesn't even matter! Because if I don't find my mate in the next week, I will either accept that I wasn't meant to and die peacefully, or I will run from you. Either way, I REFUSE to take over this pack without my true mate by my side." Having said what he didn't know would be his last words to his father, Greg slipped from the room. The next morning, he was gone.
*11:30 am, One Week Later, Italy*
Getting onto the gondola, Greg thought about his situation. In half an hour, he had a tiny chance of finding his mate, since the world was so big, and he was only in a small part of it. But something had drawn him here. And that something had to be important...
Precisely twenty eight minutes later, Greg stepped off of the gondola. And something made him look up. The most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and angel in his eyes, was walking hand-in-hand with another man, who she pecked on the cheek. Greg winced from the physical pain of seeing it happen. He had never liked PDA.
And just like that, her head raised, and she turned towards him, and as they looked at each other, they both whispered, 'Mate.'
The clock struck 11:59:50.
Greg hissed in pain, and said, "My beautiful. You're beautiful, it's true. But I'll never be with you. I'll see you in another life, my love."
And it was suddenly noon in Venus, Italy. Passerby's were whispering, murmurs traveling across the square.
The saddest way to pass- just after quoting a James Blunt song to your would be beloved, after seeing her with another man. A tragedy indeed.
A/N: Yeah I know, I'm sure no one read that. I commend those who actually bothered to glance at my crap. I had fun though, combining the typical plot of a werewolf romance with a song, and giving it a twist. Sorry it's so short. Please tell me what you think, if anyone read this.


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Expanding Fragmentation Of Production In East Asia And Domestic Operations: Further Evidence From Japanese Manufacturing Firms
This paper investigates the pattern of globalizing corporate activities of Japanese manufacturing firms and their domestic operations and international trade. More specifically, we compare changes in domestic operations and international trade of firms expanding operations in East Asia with those of firms not expanding operations in two contrastive periods, 1998–2002 and 2002–2006. In addition, we conduct analyses incorporating the information on the globalizing behavior in the former period for the latter period and analyses focusing only on non-MNEs or MNEs in line with the literature. Our study demonstrates that Japanese manufacturing firms with expanding operations in East Asia are more likely to increase domestic employment and the number of domestic affiliates and establishments as well as to intensify export/import activities with the region, particularly in the latter period, by effectively utilizing the mechanics of production process-wise division of labor in East Asia.
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