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The Psychology of Money

The transformative multimillion-copy personal finance bestseller

Morgan Housel

Written by
Morgan Housel
Read by
Chris Hill
Length
5 hrs 54 min
Rating
4.7 / 5
At Apple Books
$14.99
Publisher
Harriman House
Released
2026-02-27

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What it is

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 The Diary 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.

On the charts

Charting now — best position 2 on Apple Books in Business & Careers, reached September 17, 2026. Seen on 6 charts over 47 days of readings, the first on August 28, 2026.

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