Small Change: Money Mishaps and How to Avoid Them

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Review Engaging and funny, rife with anecdotes and advice, the book defangs a difficult topic while teaching a lot. (Publishers Weekly)A user-friendly and often entertaining treatise on how to be a more discerning, vastly more aware handler of money. (Kirkus Reviews)If you want to know why you always buy a bigger television than you intended, or why you think it's perfectly fine to spend a few dollars on a cup of coffee at Starbucks, or why people feel better after taking a 50-cent aspirin but continue to complain of a throbbing skull when they're told the pill they took just cost one penny, Ariely has the answer. (Daniel Gross Newsweek)Ariely raises the bar for everyone. in the increasingly crowded field of popular cognitive science and behavioural economics, he writes with an unusual combination of verve and sagacity. (Washington Post)If you want to get better at making good financial decisions, read “Dollars and Sense”…What the two authors do brilliantly is take behavioral economics and make it accessible. (Washington Post) Book Description A book about the irrational and odd ways we spend money – and how to curb some of those habits. See all Product description