Glenn Loury & Eldar Shafir [The Glenn Show]
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Channel: Nonzero · 2018 · News & Politics
On The Glenn Show, Glenn talks to Eldar about his new book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (00:55). Eldar argues that “attention scarcity” sheds light on the behavior of poor parents (14:57). Glenn asks Eldar about the politics of poverty (23:34), and Eldar cracks a joke about incorrigible economists who feel threatened by his research (35:18). Glenn asks Eldar to use his research to explain the Great Recession (37:58). Finally, they consider how advertisers (41:14) profit from attention scarcity—while the public loses. Glenn Loury (Brown University) and Eldar Shafir (Princeton University, Scarcity) Join the conversation on Bloggingheads.tv: http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/23604 Recorded on November 20, 2013 Subscribe to the Bloggingheads.tv YouTube channel: https://goo.gl/ccLFDY Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloggingheads Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloggingheads/ Follow our RSS feed: https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/feed?format=audio
