Eldar Shafir
Eldar Shafir (born 1959 ) is an American psychologist and the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University .
education
Shafir received his BA (Honors) in Cognitive Science from Brown University in 1984 with a magna cum laude grade , with a focus on logic and the philosophy of science . After completing his undergraduate studies, Shafir moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which gave him a Ph.D. in cognitive science.
Professional background
After earning his PhD, Eldar Shafir worked for a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University before accepting a position as Assistant Professor at Princeton University in 1989 , before being promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and finally the William Stewart Tod Professorship in Psychology and Public in 1999 Matters at Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs . During this time and since then, Shafir was also at Harvard University (1994–1995), University of Chicago (1998), Universita Ca'Foscari di Venezia (2002–2003), AILUN (2006), Pompeu Fabra University (2007– 2008) and Universidad Torcuato di Tella (2012-2013) visiting professor , visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation (1993), a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University (1994) and a professor at the Graduate School of Business Leadership in Monterrey (1997-2002).
Shafir is one of the co-founders of ideas42 , a social science research center founded at Harvard University in 2008 . In 2017 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
In 2013 he published the book "Scarcity - what it does to us when we have too little" together with Sendhil Mullainathan . The authors state that all forms of scarcity - regardless of whether they are shortages of goods or social resources - lead to similar restrictions.
Works
- Eldar Shafir, Sendhil Mullainathan: Scarcity - why having too little means so much. London: Allen Lane , an imprint of Penguin Books , 2013, ISBN 978-1-84614-345-8 .
- German: Knappheit - What it does to us when we have too little. Campus Verlag Frankfurt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-59342-048-6 , translated by Carl Freytag.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter S. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 27, 2017 (English).
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shafir, eldar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychologist and the William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |