Elizabeth Dunn is an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. At age twenty-six, she was featured as one of the "rising stars" across all of academia by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Michael Norton is the Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He has studied human behavior as it relates to love and inequality, time and money, and happiness and grief. He is the author of The Ritual Effect and the coauthor--with Elizabeth Dunn--of Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending. In 2012, he was selected by Wired magazine as one of "50 People Who Will Change the World." His TEDx talk, How to Buy Happiness, has been viewed nearly 4.5 million times. He is a frequent contributor to such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Scientific American, and has made numerous television, radio, and podcast appearances.
"[Happy Money] is filled with surprising, counterintuitive findings
that also produce a spark of recognition.... Dunn and Norton have
outlined a series of valuable and instructive findings,
demonstrating that people tend to overlook the effects of attention
and adaptation, and that they would do better if they were to make
expenditure decisions with those effects in mind."--The New
Republic
"[Dunn and Norton's] infectious enthusiasm for their subject is
admirable.... They provide an interesting exploration of increasing
happiness by buying time, as well as ways to address
budgeting."--Kirkus Reviews
"[S]hort and breezy but research-heavy."--New York Times
"Dunn and Norton strive to show how to spend money in less typical
but more pleasing ways. They offer five principles you can use to
buy happiness.... I love the five principles of happy money because
they aren't about getting more money but getting more out of the
money you have."--Michelle Singletary, The Washington Post
"Each of Dunn and Norton's five principles offers a scientifically
validated means of increasing happiness. Like asking a surgical
expert to perform your heart transplant, following their principles
might be better than just winging it. And luckily, spending money
is a lot easier and much less messy than major surgery."--Guy
Kawasaki
"How to spend smarter? Read this book!--a rare combination of
informed science writing, rollicking good fun, and practical
pointers for a more flourishing and compassionate life."--David G.
Myers, author of The Pursuit of Happiness
"If you think money doesn't buy happiness, then you're just not
spending it right. In this lively and engaging book, Dunn and
Norton use the latest scientific research to show how you can get a
bigger emotional bang for your hard-earned bucks. Happy Money isn't
a purchase; it's an investment--and a shrewd one at that."--Daniel
Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness
"Many books have been written to tell you how to make money, save
money, and invest money. Now there's a book that can tell you how
to spend it. Wisely."--Chip Heath, co-author of Made to Stick and
Switch
"No one understands how to get more happiness out of our money
better than Liz Dunn and Mike Norton. Their research is not only on
the cutting edge--it changes where the edge is. Like stand-up
comedians of science, Dunn and Norton take ordinary observations
that everybody experiences and craftily distill them with a clarity
that makes us laugh, and then makes us think. They have done us a
great service by sharing their knowledge with us in the
easy-to-apply principles they present in this book."--Dan Ariely,
author of Predictably Irrational
"Packed with tips...people will come away from this book believing
it was money well spent."--The Economist
"This small, snappily written book is focused on five points, all
directed at enabling people to get more bang for their bucks... Buy
[this] book, read [it], take the advice [it] offer[s] to heart, and
you'll be a happier person."--Barry Schwartz, Los Angeles Review of
Books
"University of British Columbia psychology professor Dunn and
Harvard Business School marketing professor Norton, friends from
graduate school, offer a witty, lively guide to changing the
philosophy behind spending so that it brings you true joy....
Readers cannot help but be charmed by this funny, warm guide to
creating the good life from scratch."--Publishers Weekly
Money. For most people, it's a source of stress and fear. And yet more money doesn't change things-research shows that once an American is earning around $75,000 a year, he does not get any happier with incremental income. What if instead of simply focusing on curtailing our spending, we changed how we spent our money, putting it toward purchases that actually make us happy? University of British Columbia psychology professor Dunn and Harvard Business School marketing professor Norton, friends from graduate school, offer a witty, lively guide to changing the philosophy behind spending so that it brings you true joy. Buy experiences rather than products, they advise; make your purchases treats rather than hobbies; buy yourself time; save rather than putting yourself in debt; and invest in others. Referencing behavioral psychology experiments and tests, the authors direct readers through the ways they can change their behavior to make the spending on even a limited budget lead to happiness. Readers cannot help but be charmed by this funny, warm guide to creating the good life from scratch. Agent: Katinka Matson, Brockman Inc. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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