The Psychology of Money Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

Doing well with money, Morgan Housel argues, has less to do with what you know than with how you behave, and behaviour is stubbornly hard to teach, even to very clever people. Finance is usually presented as a matter of data and formulas, yet real decisions get made at the dinner table or in a meeting room, where personal history, ego, pride, marketing and odd incentives all jostle for a say.

Across 19 short stories, Housel, an award-winning writer, examines the strange ways people think about wealth, greed and happiness, and offers a saner way of making sense of one of life's most important subjects. It suits anyone who suspects their spending, saving or investing is driven by more than arithmetic, and it leaves you calmer about money and clearer about what you want from it.