Managing money, investing it, and making business decisions are often thought of as involving a lot of mathematical calculations, 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 boardroom, where personal history, your unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and strange incentives come together.
In The Psychology of Money, the author shares 19 short stories that explore the strange ways people think about money and teach you how to better understand one of life’s most important issues.