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The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

by Morgan Housel

Money decisions beyond the spreadsheet

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Awards & Recognition

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    The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

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    Sunday Times bestselling author

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Money decisions beyond the spreadsheet

Morgan Housel approaches personal finance as a subject shaped not only by numbers but by the ways people behave. Across 19 short stories, the book examines how personal history, pride, marketing and incentives can enter decisions about investing, business and money management. Its organizing idea is that financial choices happen in human settings, where formulas alone do not capture every influence. That makes the book less a technical manual than a collection of perspectives on why people handle money differently and how those habits affect financial decisions.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the behavioral side of personal finance and investing
  • Those who prefer short, story-based explorations of money management
  • Readers curious about how personal history and incentives shape financial choices

Themes

Money behaviorPersonal financeInvestingDecision-makingWealth and happiness

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Book overview

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller.

Over 10 million copies sold around the world.

The original book from Morgan Housel, the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of Same As Ever and The Art of Spending Money.

As featured on the Dr Chatterjee podcast Feel Better, Live More and TheDiary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett.


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.

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