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  • Finance for Normal People

  • How Investors and Markets Behave, Reprint Edition
  • By: Meir Statman
  • Narrated by: David Stifel
  • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Finance for Normal People

By: Meir Statman
Narrated by: David Stifel
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Finance for Normal People teaches behavioral finance to people like you and me - normal people, neither rational nor irrational. We are consumers, savers, investors, and managers - corporate managers, money managers, financial advisers, and all other financial professionals.

The book guides us to know our wants - including hope for riches, protection from poverty, caring for family, sincere social responsibility, and high social status. It teaches financial facts and human behavior, including making cognitive and emotional shortcuts and avoiding cognitive and emotional errors such as overconfidence, hindsight, exaggerated fear, and unrealistic hope. And it guides us to banish ignorance, gain knowledge, and increase the ratio of smart to foolish behavior on our way to what we want.

These lessons of behavioral finance draw on what we know about us - normal people - including our wants, cognition, and emotions. And they draw on the roles of these factors in saving and spending, portfolio construction, returns we can expect from our investments, and whether we can hope to beat the market.

©2017 Meir Statman (P)2020 Gildan Media
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Don't waste your time and money

I downloaded this book to learn more about "behavioral economics." The book served that purpose. Turns out behavioral economics consists of academia types citing random experiments and examples of people making bad financial decisions. Really? People make bad financial decisions. You don't say? I took nothing from this book other than that. If the author does a sequel, he should add the example of me paying for his book.

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