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Record 1 2021-09-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economic and Industrial Sociology
  • Sociology of Ideologies
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

Scarcity mentality refers to people seeing life as a finite pie, so that if one person takes a big piece, that leaves less for everyone else. Most people, particularly in the corporate world, have been conditioned to have a scarcity mentality.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie économique et industrielle
  • Sociologie des idéologies
  • Comportement humain

Spanish

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