There’s a popular image of people who don’t save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention. — Sendhil Mullainathan
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Sendhil Mullainathan : American Economist
Born: 1972
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Unlike some, I don’t claim to hold the mystic key to the fut…
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