Dr. Dan Ariely

Jeff Kreisler

Why is paying for things painful? Why are we comfortable overpaying for something in the present just because we’ve overpaid for it in the past? Why is it easy to pay $4 for a soda on vacation, when we wouldn’t spend more than $1 on that same soda at our local grocery store? We think of money as numbers, values, and amounts, but when it comes down to it, when we actually use our money, we engage our hearts more than our heads. Emotions play a powerful role in shaping our financial behavior, often making us our own worst enemies as we try to save, access value, and spend responsibly. In Dollars and Sense, bestselling author and behavioral economist Dan Ariely teams up with financial comedian and writer Jeff Kreisler to challenge many of our most basic assumptions about the precarious relationship between our brains and our money. In doing so, they undermine many of personal finance’s most sacred beliefs and explain how we can override some of our own instincts to make better financial choices. Exploring a wide range of everyday topics—from the lure of pain-free spending with credit cards to the pitfalls of household budgeting to the seductive power of holiday sales—Ariely and Kreisler demonstrate how our misplaced confidence in our spending habits frequently leads us astray, costing us more than we realize, whether it’s the real value of the time we spend driving forty-five minutes to save $10 or our inability to properly assess what the things we buy are actually worth. Together Ariely and Kreisler reveal the emotional forces working against us and how we can counteract them. Mixing case studies and anecdotes with concrete 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. The result not only reveals the rationale behind our most head-scratching financial choices but also offers clear guidance for navigating the treacherous financial landscape of the brain. Fascinating, engaging, funny, and essential, Dollars and Sense provides the practical tools we need to understand and improve our financial choices, save and spend smarter, and ultimately live better.

How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter

Dollars and Sense

Dan Ariely

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.

Money Mishaps and How to Avoid Them

Behavioral Economics

In these difficult times, there's only one proven path to ridiculous amounts of money: Cheating. Everyone's doing it—from sleazy CEOs to 'roided-up home run kings, silicone-enhanced starlets, and backroom-dealing congressmen—so why not you? Get Rich Cheating is your definitive guide to the illegal, immoral, and fun, detailing the schemes that have proven time and time again to generate more cash than God, Google, and the Treasury combined. No one ever bought a fleet of Bentleys with hard work, perseverance, and honesty. Simply by purchasing this book, you've already done more than most "ethical" people dare. Open it, savor the moment, and inhale deeply in the musk of your impending wealth—it's time to Get Rich Cheating.

The Crooked Path to Easy Street

Get Rich Cheating

Blending humour and behavioural 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 Small Change, world renowned economist Dan Ariely answers these intriguing questions and many more as he explains how our irrational behaviour 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, Small Change 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. Published in the US as Dollars and Sense

Small Change

“Envolvente e divertido, repleto de histórias e conselhos práticos, este livro desmistifica um tema difícil e ensina muito.” – Publishers Weekly “Se você quer tomar decisões financeiras mais inteligentes, leia este livro. Os autores apresentam a economia comportamental e a tornam acessível para qualquer um.” – The Washington Post Neste livro, o consagrado psicólogo Dan Ariely uniu forças com o comediante Jeff Kreisler para revelar como as emoções dominam nossa maneira de lidar com o dinheiro e para derrubar as mais consagradas – e equivocadas – premissas das finanças pessoais. Ao explorar diversas questões do dia a dia – dos gastos com o cartão de crédito às armadilhas do orçamento doméstico –, eles mostram como driblar nossos instintos para não cair nas tentações, para economizar, fazer escolhas melhores e gastar com inteligência. Intercalando lições de ordem prática com conselhos bem-humorados, Ariely e Kreisler lançam luz sobre os medos e os desejos inconscientes que costumam estar por trás de nossos hábitos muitas vezes desastrados de consumo. Fascinante e divertido, este livro oferece as ferramentas para você transformar o dinheiro em um poderoso aliado para uma vida mais próspera, tranquila e prazerosa.

Como tomar decisões financeiras mais inteligentes

A psicologia do dinheiro

"Envolvente e divertido, repleto de histórias e conselhos práticos, esse livro desmistifica um tema difícil e ensina muito. " – Publishers Weekly "Se você quer tomar decisões financeiras mais inteligentes, leia este livro. Os autores apresentam a economia comportamental e a tornam acessível para qualquer um." – The Washington Post Nesse livro, o consagrado psicólogo Dan Ariely uniu forças com o comediante Jeff Kreisler para revelar como as emoções dominam nossa maneira de lidar com o dinheiro e para derrubar as mais consagradas – e equivocadas – premissas das finanças pessoais. Ao explorar diversas questões do dia a dia – dos gastos com o cartão de crédito às armadilhas do orçamento doméstico –, eles mostram como driblar nossos instintos para não cair nas tentações, para economizar, fazer escolhas melhores e gastar com inteligência. Intercalando lições de ordem prática com conselhos bem-humorados, Ariely e Kreisler lançam luz sobre os medos e os desejos inconscientes que costumam estar por trás de nossos hábitos muitas vezes desastrados de consumo. Fascinante e divertido, esse livro oferece as ferramentas para você transformar o dinheiro em um poderoso aliado para uma vida mais próspera, tranquila e prazerosa.

Descubra como as emoções influenciam nossas escolhas financeiras e aprenda a tomar decisões mais inteligentes

För allt fantastiskt du gör för oss, allt förskräckligt du gör mot oss, och allt i gråzonen däremellan. Med en dedikation till PENGAR inleds Dan Arielys och Jeff Kreislers bok som handlar om mekanismerna bakom vårt sätt att tänka kring pengar. Obönhörligt och underhållande skärskådas vårt irrationella sätt att fatta beslut i ekonomiska frågor. Om vi ska kunna komma fram till vettiga monetära beslut måste vi genomskåda våra märkliga handlingsmönster och ologiska beteenden när det gäller just ekonomi. för hur kan vi utan att blinka köpa en resa för tiotusentals kronor och lägga 20 minuter på att leta efter en gratis parkeringsplats? Eller låna miljoner till en bostad och promenera i ösregn utan paraply till ett avlägset fik där vi sparar in en tia på kaffet? Det fascinerande och snabbväxande forskningsfältet beteendeekonomi har haft stort inflytande på många områden som berör ekonomisk forskning och politik, till exempel tilldelades nobelpriset i ekonomi förra året beteendeekonomen Richard Thaler. Rappt, roligt och med gedigen forskningsbakgrund hjälper Ariely och Kreisler läsaren att identifiera feltänk och fallgropar och istället använda smartare strategier då det handlar om vårt komplicerade förhållande till pengar.

Pengar på hjärnan : Feltänk, fallgropar och smartare strategier

Ein Soundsystem ist teuer, aber wenn wir ein neues Auto kaufen, lassen wir es mit einbauen. Der Preis fällt dann ja nicht mehr so ins Gewicht, oder? Wir kaufen, wir sparen, wir investieren und wir drücken auch mal ein Auge zu und gönnen uns etwas. Leider macht uns das noch lange nicht zu Geldexperten. Im Gegenteil, viele unserer Sparertricks sind tatsächlich ökonomischer Unsinn. Dan Ariely und Jeff Kreisler erklären die verborgenen Denkfehler, die die meisten von uns machen, wenn es um Geld geht. Anhand von Fallbeispielen und Studien zeigen sie, wie kluges Marketing uns zu dummen Einkäufen verleitet und wie stark unser Urteil von der Situation abhängt, in der wir Geld ausgeben. Leser lernen nicht nur besser mit Geld umzugehen, sie begreifen auch die Fallstricke unseres Denkens.

Warum wir nicht mit Geld umgehen können

Teuer ist relativ

Combinando un gran sentido del humor y profundos conocimientos de economía conductual, Dan Ariely se adentra en el mundo absolutamente ilógico de las finanzas personales, las del día a día, para ayudar a entender por qué tomamos algunas decisiones, muchas de ellas equivocadas. En Las trampas del dinero, Ariely y Kreisler (un experto financiero y gran divulgador) analizan una amplia gama de ejemplos cotidianos (por qué duele menos pagar con tarjeta, las trampas que nos hacemos a nosotros mismos en el presupuesto familiar, las tentadoras ofertas a las que sucumbimos en vacaciones...) para demostrar cómo nuestras ideas sobre la gestión del dinero a menudo están equivocadas y nos convierten en nuestros peores enemigos. Fascinante, divertido e imprescindible, sin duda este libro es una gran inversión para todo aquel que quiera entender mejor las trampas en las que caemos a la hora de gestionar nuestro dinero para poder ahorrar, gastar de una forma más inteligente y, en definitiva, vivir mejor.

Jeff Kreisler

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