The psychology of money : timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness / Morgan Housel.

By: Housel, Morgan [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Hampshire, UK : Harriman House, 2020Copyright date: © Morgan HouselEdition: First EditionDescription: VIII, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmedited Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857197689Subject(s): Money -- Psychological aspects | WealthDDC classification: 332.4019 Summary: Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life's most important topics. provided by publisher.
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"On of the best and most original finance books in years" Jason Zweig (cover page).

Includes endnotes.

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money--investing, personal finance, and business decisions--is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don't make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life's most important topics. provided by publisher.

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