Poverty and the Lump of Willpower

Poverty and the Lump of Willpower: "pJamie Holmes has a very interesting piece in TNR about psychological and economic research into the interplay of poverty and self-control. Basically there’s a fair amount of research indicating that that mental self-control is a kind of finite resource. Resisting temptation is mentally exhausting. And it even appears that making any kind of tough decisions [...]/p"