Going Broke: Why Americans (Still) Can't Hold On To Their Money

Author:   Stuart Vyse (Psychologist and author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, Psychologist and author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, Connecticut College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
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Pages:   344
Publication Date:   25 October 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Stuart Vyse (Psychologist and author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, Psychologist and author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, Connecticut College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780190677848


ISBN 10:   0190677848
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   25 October 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Preface Chapter 1: The Open Drain Chapter 2: Making Sense of Financial Failure Chapter 3: The Road to Ruin Chapter 4: Self-Control and Money Chapter 5: A Different Road to Ruin Chapter 6: New Ways of Wanting Chapter 7: New Ways of Spending Chapter 8: Thinking About Money Chapter 9: How Not to Go Broke Notes Resources A Note About the Interviews Index

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"""With deep compassion and penetrating insight, Stuart Vyse turns the lens of science to uncover the reasons so many people cannot save what they earn...Vyse's program on how to avoid debt should be printed on the back of every credit card application form."" --Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things and The Mind of the Market Praise for the First Edition ""In this compelling and wide-ranging work, Vyse explores the history of lending in America, the invention of the shopping cart, the evolution of self-service discount shopping, and the explosion of branding and advertising."" -- Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post"


< With deep compassion and penetrating insight, Stuart Vyse turns the lens of science to uncover the reasons so many people cannot save what they earn... Vyse's program on how to avoid debt should be printed on the back of every credit card application form.> -Michael Shermer, author of Why People Believe Weird Things and The Mind of the Market


Author Information

Stuart Vyse is a behavioral scientist, teacher, and writer. He holds PhD and MA degrees in psychology and BA and MA degrees in English Literature. He taught at Providence College, the University of Rhode Island, and Connecticut College, where he was Joanne Toor Cummings '50 Professor. Vyse's book Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition won the 1999 William James Book Award of the American Psychological Association and has been translated into Japanese, German, and Romanian.

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