Reading list

Books that cover the research Wallet Wired draws on. Listed for what they explain, not as a recommendation to buy.

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel · 2020

Short essays on how behaviour, more than knowledge, shapes money outcomes.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman · 2011

The two-system model of thinking and the biases behind many money decisions.

Misbehaving

Richard H. Thaler · 2015

How behavioral economics grew out of the gaps in standard economic theory.

Scarcity

Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir · 2013

How having too little narrows attention and changes decisions.

Mind Over Money

Brad Klontz and Ted Klontz · 2009

Money scripts: the beliefs about money people learn early.