Kids learn money lessons long before they can count. The way we talk, spend, save, and give becomes their playbook. Here is ...

When I was teaching, I sometimes asked my students: Are the good things in life scarce? Based on those conversations, I can report that people tended to say they are. As the students saw it, there are ...

Growing up as an introverted only child in a single-parent, low-income household, I always felt like I was lacking something. As a kid, I watched my mother live paycheck-to-paycheck and quickly ...

Psychologists focus on scarcity as a perception that what we want is in short supply or otherwise difficult to obtain. Because we cannot easily obtain the “good” in question, that quest preoccupies us ...