Dollars and Sense

How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter

By: Dan Ariely, Jeff Kreisler

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Blending humor and behavioral economics, the New York Times bestselling 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.

Another great book by Dan Ariely!

Another great book from Dan Ariely. The book is full of useful insights that are backed by very interesting research.

Best Book on money EVER !

I fully admit, I’m not real smart with money. I’ve tried countless books on understanding and managing money better. They are always pretty darn boring, lack depth and don’t really assist me in my goal of being fiscally healthy.

This book was the opposite. It was interesting, witty, gave in-depth explanations about why I make horrible money decisions and real strategies of how I might be able to make better money decisions.

Thank you to everyone involved in this book for helping be more fiscally healthy.

Amazing book and narration

This is so much fun and joy to listen this book so I plan to do it again.

It is also full of useful information.

Not only nutritious, but delicious too.

If all books on personal finance were as wise, sensible, and fun to listen to as this, we'd all be a little less stinky with our money. Really good sentences, here. Flawless performance. Fresh insights on a well-worn topic.

The best book on mind and money.

By far the best book I’ve read on the everyday psychology effects of money and the common mistakes we make.