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Books like Pound Foolish

Pound Foolish by Helaine Olen is about personal finance industry, financial media, consumer behavior. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow
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    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman · Psychology

    Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.

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  2. The Psychology of Money
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    The Psychology of Money

    Morgan Housel · Economics

    The Psychology of Money is Morgan Housel's argument that financial success depends less on technical knowledge than on behavior — specifically, on understanding how your personal history, emotions, and cognitive biases shape every financial decision you make.

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  3. Weapons of Math Destruction
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    Weapons of Math Destruction

    Cathy O'Neil · Science

    Weapons of Math Destruction is mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil's investigation of how algorithms — statistical models used to make decisions about people's lives — can perpetuate and amplify inequality rather than reduce it.

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  4. The Millionaire Next Door
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    The Millionaire Next Door

    Thomas J. Stanley · Economics

    The Millionaire Next Door is Thomas Stanley and William Danko's report on a decade of research into who actually has wealth in America, and their findings are consistently surprising.

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  5. 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
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    100 to 1 in the Stock Market

    Thomas Phelps · Economics

    100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.

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  6. A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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    A Random Walk Down Wall Street

    Burton G. Malkiel · Economics

    A Random Walk Down Wall Street is Burton Malkiel's argument that stock prices move in a way that is effectively unpredictable, that professional fund managers cannot consistently beat the market, and that the rational response for most investors is to buy and hold a diversified index fund.

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