Morgan Housel.
by Morgan Housel — The Psychology of Money (2020) · Behavioral money thinking
Financial writer, partner at Collaborative Fund, and author of The Psychology of Money (2020) — one of the bestselling personal-finance books of the modern era. Known for treating money as a behavioral subject, not a math subject.
About Morgan Housel
Morgan Housel is a financial writer best known for The Psychology of Money (2020), a collection of 20 short essays on the behavioral patterns behind financial decision-making. The book has sold over 5 million copies globally and been translated into 50+ languages.
Before writing The Psychology of Money, Housel was a columnist at The Motley Fool and Wall Street Journal. He is currently a partner at Collaborative Fund, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage consumer and technology investments. He has won the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers twice.
Housel's central thesis — that doing well with money has almost nothing to do with how smart you are and almost everything to do with how you behave — has reframed how a generation of new investors thinks about the gap between what's mathematically optimal and what they'll actually stick with.
