When it comes to money, many are in a bad mood, and doing business with finances and naked numbers can be quite enjoyable. 5 books show how.

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“Why at the end of money how much month is left” is an intelligent consumer guide on how we can all take back control of our money management. The authors show convincingly that small changes in our buying behavior are often enough to end up with significantly more (or significantly longer) money in our wallets. –

And that beyond household books, tedious price comparisons and, above all, doing without! Because with that Term Perhaps you also associate “saving” with household books, price comparisons for buttermilk and, above all, doing without.

Consume with open eyes

The Schwarz couple proves with the very useful and entertaining book "Why at the end of the money there is still so much month left" that you can save cleverly without meticulously checking your expenditure capture.

And you don't have to do without any small or big wishes. You will become whole after reading it for sure with open Eyes consume, not be seduced by advertising phrases, pseudo-offers and XXL promises. That alone makes a difference in the month.

The temptations in the super- or electric market

And that's what the book is about: Friedhelm and Ruth Schwarz use many examples from the Everyday life, how our perception works when making purchasing decisions and why we put things in our baskets that were neither on the list nor promise any benefit.

Neurological processes play a role here (which of course take place subconsciously), but above all habits that “take place automatically like cycling”.

The everyday self-deception

Discounts for your success (advertising)!

And of course the everyday self-deception, the inner one voice, which tells us that in order to be better, we need to own this one product feel.

The on account almost never works out because “whether we buy a bar of chocolate or buy a sports car, once we own it, it's boring and unappealing”. By the way, you can check for yourself if you take a look in your closet.

Red card for the credit card

Remarkable: also the social milieu and gender decide about which brands we prefer, where we shop, and how much money we put into a packet of butter or a color TV invest. But that doesn't mean that you can't change the consumer behavior that you've trained over decades.

The authors will help you with this with simple Regulate, which you should call up before going to the checkout. Two of them are: “Avoid impulse purchases” and “Pay with cash only”. Let's do it tomorrow! Bet that you too can save significant amounts every month without having to do without really important products? Read the clever consumer guide Why there is so much month left at the end of the money. You will immediately ignore "new", "reduced" or "scarce" offers.

Money alone does not make you happy?

A topic that moves people's minds like no other: the question of whether being rich makes you happy, which is always asked a little morally sour in Germany. The question should be asked differently: How does money make you happy? A book about the paradigm shift in our Society.

Money alone does not bring happiness, they say. Still, most strive Status– or for security reasons after that, if possible to have money. But does money actually make you happy? And how does money make you happy?

We will introduce you to an exciting book on the subject of how we use our money best, so that it also gives us a good feeling and we have as long as possible. Not necessarily on the bench, but in our lives!

Investment in happiness

Luxury problem – the term fits perfectly with the consumer striving of the mostly wealthy Germans: enough money in the account, but no rights Idea, where to put it. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton are here to help get you started with the enlightening yet controversial book Happy Money.

Do not worry, it is not about strategy strategies or Spartipps. But on the contrary. The authors encourage you on almost every page to bring your deserved ones back to the people. The yield promise is: luck against money.

Material prosperity satisfies only temporarily

According to Dunn and Norton, this feeling of happiness is exactly what many are chasing People in vain who invest their savings in luxury cars, expensive record collections or a designer fitted kitchen.

material prosperity and acquiring status symbols, the authors argue, offer only temporary gratification. constant satisfaction they can't. But that is exactly what is hidden in beautiful memories, in the gain of time or in social investments.

Treat instead of accumulate

A total of five motives make the two authors for the systematic acquisition of happiness:

Scientific underpinned: happiness can be bought

While “Buy experiences” and “Treat yourself to something special” make sense at first glance, the other principles are in need of explanation.

Dunn and Norton underpinned all the models with many evidence from scientific studies and their own experiences to reveal the most astonishingly simple logic behind it.

Anticipation is valuable

Example of a holiday: Book today, get off the plane in only half a year, so multiply the holiday fun with the numerous moments of anticipation. Folds also with large purchases such as an expensive stereo system or a car.

You should avoid going the other way around: the apparent 0%Financing many discount stores is a way into that Debt trap. You still pay off when the purchase is no longer appealing to you.

Save time, not money

And you can also buy time by transferring unloved activities such as cleaning or car washing to household help. Or by more consciously consuming.

For disposable products worth neither a long journey nor a meticulous price comparison. Take the first offer when it comes to umbrellas, detergents or canned soup, and invest the free time in something useful - for example, your hobby.

Turn off the fog lamps

Dunn and Norton offer you world-class offerings to make better, more sustainable consumer choices in the future. Convincing, good book that will be remembered for a long time. The book we are going to introduce is about the emergence of financial markets and the economic crisis.

In a simple fable, the authors tell "how an economy grows and why it crashes". A big one, by the way Success in the USA: The English original of the book received the “International Book Award” from 'get abstract'. It is now hot off the press on the German market. And I also think: An excellent book!

If you want to understand the financial market, you just have to turn off the fog

An important reason for the financial crisis was the fact that many have agreed not to understand due to the apparent complexity of the matter. "Will be fine" was the attitude with which economies Companys, Financial professionals just as small private investors have driven to the wall.

Yet they would have Background and the determination of the often troubled "Swabian housewife" is enough Crisis to avert. Because whichever way you look at it, you can't spend more than you earn. In order to make this basic knowledge visible again, Peter and Andrew Schiff blow away the fog that the supposed financial experts produce.

We do not serve the money, but the money serves us

The book was an enormous success in the US, it has been awarded the International Book Award and is now available in German translation. The story begins with three men who live on an island a day to catch a fish.

Until somebody starts to build a net. Gradually, the small island population is developing, developing loans, founding a bank, granting loans, and finally deciding to set up a public administration, that is, a state.

Great idea, we print money!

In the first part, the two brothers sketch the origin, function and Effect of the financial sector. And as a function of Economy and business (to provide credit for investment) and not the other way around! In the second part, they then describe a dramatic descent.

In the meantime, the state has no longer become the executive organ of society but has itself become a powerful actor. With the monopoly to print money, he has created a powerful tool. An instrument, however, that he no longer uses in any way Control has. The financial crisis does not appear here as a “black swan” but as a logical consequence of the political appropriation of money as a medium of exchange.

Silence over the madness of the financial markets

However, the two authors remain silent about the madness that the market is also capable of producing – the privatization of gewinnen with simultaneous socialization of the losses or the destructive handling of common goods such as air and water or the sometimes inhuman handling of the "good" labor power.

This may also be due to solidarity within the family. The father of the authors Irwin Schiff, an American legend in the fight against the abolition of the gold standard and the associated fight against Taxes, at the age of 83, inflexible in the Indiana jail.

Fairy tale book to tell the truth

Is going fast clearthat these are established anti-Keynesians, flawless market liberals. So it's no wonder that they blame the state with its interventionist policies as the reason for the financial crisis.

Nevertheless, the book is a first-class reading pleasure and also educational! My conclusion: It is worrying that the Schiff brothers have to write a “fairy tale book” in order to be able to say sentences like “we cannot consume more than we produce, we cannot borrow more than we save”. But all the more important.

No book with seven seals

“Discover Your Love of Economics” is the subtitle of Charles Wheelan's original book “Naked Economics”. And not for nothing: For many, economics is still a book with seven seals. Here they are finally explained clearly.

To say the prelude: Charle Wheelan has succeeded in an exciting, at times provocative, but above all informative introduction to economics. Only rarely is the economy explained so vividly, so close to everyday life and tangible.

Can national economy be exciting?

"Business reports are complicated, tiring and none of my business." This prejudice persists for the majority of non-economists, since it seems to be fed daily by long-winded contributions to state bankruptcies, the euro crisis and budgetary debates.

With “Naked Economics”, author Charles Wheelan proves the opposite: economic contexts are exciting, obvious and concern us all - if you explain them appropriately. And this is exactly what the author achieves in a playful, sometimes humorous, but always very vivid way, without ever exposing himself to the danger of platitudes or trivializations.

Good stories instead of mathematic equations

"Naked Economics" does not intend to be a textbook for economics students, although it would certainly be good for that. Wheelan explains the laws of the marketplace, competition, and the relationship of Costs and use without the help of diagrams, mathematical equations or line-filling definitions.

Instead, he relies on razor-sharp everyday observations and stories from his personal environment to describe the basic principles of economic action. He succeeds with such a light pen that the reader fast forgets that “Naked Economics” is actually a non-fiction book.

Lively encounters in the lecture hall

He impressively enchants classic misconceptions and regulars' arguments like “globalization costs jobs” and with convincing evidence. At no time does Wheelan argue with his forefinger:

The reader imagines himself more in the Conversation with a good friend than on the wooden bench of an anonymous one Uni-lecture room. This is what makes the book so charming and increases it Fun while reading. Wheelan finds words that anyone who engages in the pleasurable discourse about money, bartering, gains and losses understands.

Surprises against indented memorabilia

Moments of surprise are a stylistic device that Wheelan surely masters. For example, if he initially regrets Mexico City's air pollution and then unexpectedly turns to the topic of “harmful interference by the state in the free market economy”, this may initially be irritating.

But in this way he turns his attention to previously hidden ones Pattern in the interaction between people, the environment and politics. Specifically: the measure taken by the Mexican government to introduce a one-day driving ban per week and vehicle proved to be an economic boost in the short term, but an ecological disaster.

Because the pollutant content in the air was not reduced, but increased, because many Mexicans did not renounce car driving, but sat on a second car to meet the legal requirements. Including of course old models with enormous pollutant emissions.

Queries allowed

Of course, one can (and should) read this book chronologically - precisely because central theses and concepts are introduced at the beginning of the first two chapters. However, fun and understanding do not suffer when, for example, you enter into the treatment (and settlement) of the financial markets.

Wheelan always succeeds in “capturing” the reader anew and sensitizing them to the obvious and hidden connections between economic activity.

Abstract connections are conveyed concretely

Even if the reader does not agree with all of the statements, because Wheelan gives deep insight into his personal view of all the literature references and the relevant arguments. After reading the book, he is simply wiser.

Conclusion: Whoever ever wanted to know how markets and marketing mechanisms influence our thinking and actions, why a chaining of misjudgments inevitably had to provoke the financial crisis and what influence the political possibilities remain will be found in this book. Rarely was the economy so lively, so close to everyday life and tangible.

Educational and amusing head cushion cover for newcomers and old bunnies

Money not only wants to be earned, but also invested well. This is where Jessica Schwarzer's new book helps those who deal with the topics shares, stock market and financial investments. And it's well written too.

Journalists, some say, are people who try to explain something to others that they have not fully understood. The sentence is of course not meant very seriously. And he does not vote too. Because there are many journalists who not only write well, but also understand a great deal about what they write about. Jessica Schwarzer is such a journalist.

Tips from the chief correspondent of the Handelsblatt

The chief correspondent at the Düsseldorfer Handelsblatt specializes in the subject of stock exchanges and investments, and that she has penetrated this topic, she proves once again with her new book “Back and forth makes pockets empty? What the stock market wisdom of Kostolany, Buffett and Co. is still good today ”.

The book is the continuation of her 2013 book “Sell in May and go away?” And this much can already be said: It is just as knowledgeable, educational, entertaining and enjoyable to read as Part 1.

“You earn more with your butt than with your brain”

In her new book, Schwarzer also examines numerous stock exchanges, analyzing through many examples and historical developments, whether they actually keep what they promise and whether they are above all recommended as a recommendation for action.

In addition to the relatively well-known sayings like "back and forth makes bags empty" there are also some amusing sentences that are not yet so common. Would you like an example? "Stock market prices are like high heels, the higher the better" or "You earn more with your butt than with your brain".

Advice and recommendations when buying

In addition to the analysis, Schwarzer also gives explicit advice and recommendations in terms of investment behavior. For example, it recommends that private investors refrain from buying individual stocks (ie shares in a particular company) and instead invest in ETFs instead.

The new book by Jessica Schwarzer is recommended for anyone interested in stocks, stock markets and investments. What particularly pleases is that it is well written and wonderful to read despite all expertise and seriousness. Also newcomers to the market are not overwhelmed on any page, so that the book is also well suited as an introduction to the topic. In other words, the title is a clear purchase.


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