The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Wealth is not built in spreadsheets but in minds shaped by fear, hope, greed, and patience. The Psychology of Money dives beneath the numbers to reveal the messy, human heart of financial decision-making—where stories, not statistics, rule the day. With elegant clarity and arresting insight, it asks: why do smart people make irrational choices about money, and how can we learn to master behavior rather than markets? This is not a manual of riches, but a meditation on how money dances with time, emotion, and the deeply personal stories we tell ourselves. What if the key to financial success isn’t knowing more, but doing less—and thinking differently?
- Originally Published: 2020
- Publisher: Harriman House, 2020
- Genre: Self-help
- Pages: 256
- Book Type: Hardcopy
- ISBN: 978-0857197689
- Access: Members
Description
OVER 7 MILLION COPIES SOLD AROUND THE WORLD… The Psychology of Money is the original bestselling classic from the author of the new book, Same as Ever.
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 different ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.
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