Dollars and Sense
How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
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Narrated by:
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Simon Jones
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Written by:
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Dan Ariely
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Jeff Kreisler
About this listen
Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times best-selling author of Predictably Irrational delves into the truly illogical world of personal finance to help people better understand why they make bad financial decisions and gives them the knowledge they need to make better ones.
- Why does paying for things often feel like it causes physical pain?
- Why does it cost you money to act as your own real estate agent?
- Why are we comfortable overpaying for something now just because we've overpaid for it before?
In Dollars and Sense, world-renowned economist Dan Ariely answers these intriguing questions and many more as he explains how our irrational behavior often interferes with our best intentions when it comes to managing our finances. Partnering with financial comedian and writer Jeff Kreisler, Ariely takes us deep inside our minds to expose the hidden motivations that are secretly driving our choices about money.
Exploring a wide range of everyday topics - from credit card debt and household budgeting to holiday sales - Ariely and Kreisler demonstrate how our ideas about dollars and cents are often wrong and cost us more than we know. Mixing case studies and anecdotes with tangible advice and lessons, they cut through the unconscious fears and desires driving our worst financial instincts and teach us how to improve our money habits.
Fascinating, engaging, funny, and essential, Dollars and Sense is a sound investment, providing us with the practical tools we need to understand and improve our financial choices, save and spend smarter, and ultimately live better.
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- Roobs
- 2023-02-07
Wonderful Personal Finance Book
The tone is full of banter but yet the words are filled with wisdom. There are wonderful studies that are used as examples to illustrate our financial behavior and the way we relate to money. This book has certainly shaped some of my spending habits and how I manage money. There is an excellent chapter where he talks about motivation for saving and some of the conclusions we can draw from a particular experiment conducted. Visual and measurable goals are more important than we think! It is common sense, but Dan Ariely helps us to illuminate why they make sense. Really recommend this book!
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- Sarah
- 2022-10-23
Entertaining reminder
As someone who’s read quite a few books in the behavioural economics space this book was mostly not new information, that said, I still found it an entertaining refresher and Iike I got a lot out of it. Would recommend.
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- D. Vanderbyl
- 2018-08-30
Possibly Next-Best book to The Bible
This was a great book made even better by the choice of a British narrator! I kept realising how many money (and life) mistakes I am prone to. Great book!
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- 2023-02-24
Solid Book on Money and How We Think About It
I enjoyed this book overall. Yes, some parts end up being repetitive, and some parts have been explained in other books before, but overall it's a good book on money and the interesting ways we think about it. I really like the section near the end that gives practical tips on things we can improve to help save more etc.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-11-01
subpar
Repetitive and self serving with no evidence or words of wisdom. I've read worse, meh.
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