Author: Jeffrey J. Wing
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530284276
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A wide range of readers will be intrigued by the subject of paper money. This book is highly illustrated, making it an enticing study for those that simply enjoy the many art forms on the world's currencies. Paper money is part of the currency of every nation in the world, conveying messages of historical significance, ranging from the affairs of government in war and peace to the consequences of challenging economic times and political upheaval. The evolution of its colorful imagery and revealing script provide for an interesting study with broad appeal. Whether it expressed the pride that a town, state, or nation found in its historical background, its heroes and distinguished citizens, its architectural accomplishments, or even themes of religious importance and the natural environment, paper money almost always reflected the temperament of the community. This book explores the role that money plays in our everyday lives and addresses the perception of a money's value. What is it that gives this paper any real, material value, when it is backed solely by one's faith in the government that issued it? History records the answer, by the number of governments which have experience hyperinflation. The enigma that people will accept the value of paper money unbacked by anything of real substance is a major topic covered by this book. INDEX is shown below: Preface Introduction Paper Money Authenticity Chapter 1-Images, Symbols, and Words -U.S Paper Money -Hidden Messages and Symbols -Portrait Significance -Dual Currencies -Commemoratives and Cultures Chapter 2-Indians, Slaves, Propaganda and War -Indians -U.S. Slavery -Russia / Germany -Concentration Camps -World War II Era -IndoChina, Vietnam & Cambodia -Cuba -Military Payment Certificates -Miscellaneous 1960's-1980's -World Slavery -Recent Propaganda Chapter 3-World Inflation -Zimbabwe (2006-2009) -Romania (2003-2005) -Turkey (2000-2005) -Zaire/Rep. of Congo (1992-2007) -Belarus (1992-2000) -Peru (1991-2001) -Angola (1987-1999) -Georgia (1994-1995) -Poland (1924-1994) -Yugoslavia (1990-1994) -Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1994) -Mexico (1988-1992) -Brazil (1986-1994) -Nicaragua (1985-1991) -Argentina (1981-1993) -Bolivia (1981-1987) -Chile (1967-2008) -Hungary (1946-1957) -Greece (1944) -Russia (1917-1997) -Germany (1874-1945) -Introduction to Notgeld Closing Thoughts References
Paper Money Messages
Author: Jeffrey J. Wing
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530284276
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A wide range of readers will be intrigued by the subject of paper money. This book is highly illustrated, making it an enticing study for those that simply enjoy the many art forms on the world's currencies. Paper money is part of the currency of every nation in the world, conveying messages of historical significance, ranging from the affairs of government in war and peace to the consequences of challenging economic times and political upheaval. The evolution of its colorful imagery and revealing script provide for an interesting study with broad appeal. Whether it expressed the pride that a town, state, or nation found in its historical background, its heroes and distinguished citizens, its architectural accomplishments, or even themes of religious importance and the natural environment, paper money almost always reflected the temperament of the community. This book explores the role that money plays in our everyday lives and addresses the perception of a money's value. What is it that gives this paper any real, material value, when it is backed solely by one's faith in the government that issued it? History records the answer, by the number of governments which have experience hyperinflation. The enigma that people will accept the value of paper money unbacked by anything of real substance is a major topic covered by this book. INDEX is shown below: Preface Introduction Paper Money Authenticity Chapter 1-Images, Symbols, and Words -U.S Paper Money -Hidden Messages and Symbols -Portrait Significance -Dual Currencies -Commemoratives and Cultures Chapter 2-Indians, Slaves, Propaganda and War -Indians -U.S. Slavery -Russia / Germany -Concentration Camps -World War II Era -IndoChina, Vietnam & Cambodia -Cuba -Military Payment Certificates -Miscellaneous 1960's-1980's -World Slavery -Recent Propaganda Chapter 3-World Inflation -Zimbabwe (2006-2009) -Romania (2003-2005) -Turkey (2000-2005) -Zaire/Rep. of Congo (1992-2007) -Belarus (1992-2000) -Peru (1991-2001) -Angola (1987-1999) -Georgia (1994-1995) -Poland (1924-1994) -Yugoslavia (1990-1994) -Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1994) -Mexico (1988-1992) -Brazil (1986-1994) -Nicaragua (1985-1991) -Argentina (1981-1993) -Bolivia (1981-1987) -Chile (1967-2008) -Hungary (1946-1957) -Greece (1944) -Russia (1917-1997) -Germany (1874-1945) -Introduction to Notgeld Closing Thoughts References
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530284276
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A wide range of readers will be intrigued by the subject of paper money. This book is highly illustrated, making it an enticing study for those that simply enjoy the many art forms on the world's currencies. Paper money is part of the currency of every nation in the world, conveying messages of historical significance, ranging from the affairs of government in war and peace to the consequences of challenging economic times and political upheaval. The evolution of its colorful imagery and revealing script provide for an interesting study with broad appeal. Whether it expressed the pride that a town, state, or nation found in its historical background, its heroes and distinguished citizens, its architectural accomplishments, or even themes of religious importance and the natural environment, paper money almost always reflected the temperament of the community. This book explores the role that money plays in our everyday lives and addresses the perception of a money's value. What is it that gives this paper any real, material value, when it is backed solely by one's faith in the government that issued it? History records the answer, by the number of governments which have experience hyperinflation. The enigma that people will accept the value of paper money unbacked by anything of real substance is a major topic covered by this book. INDEX is shown below: Preface Introduction Paper Money Authenticity Chapter 1-Images, Symbols, and Words -U.S Paper Money -Hidden Messages and Symbols -Portrait Significance -Dual Currencies -Commemoratives and Cultures Chapter 2-Indians, Slaves, Propaganda and War -Indians -U.S. Slavery -Russia / Germany -Concentration Camps -World War II Era -IndoChina, Vietnam & Cambodia -Cuba -Military Payment Certificates -Miscellaneous 1960's-1980's -World Slavery -Recent Propaganda Chapter 3-World Inflation -Zimbabwe (2006-2009) -Romania (2003-2005) -Turkey (2000-2005) -Zaire/Rep. of Congo (1992-2007) -Belarus (1992-2000) -Peru (1991-2001) -Angola (1987-1999) -Georgia (1994-1995) -Poland (1924-1994) -Yugoslavia (1990-1994) -Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-1994) -Mexico (1988-1992) -Brazil (1986-1994) -Nicaragua (1985-1991) -Argentina (1981-1993) -Bolivia (1981-1987) -Chile (1967-2008) -Hungary (1946-1957) -Greece (1944) -Russia (1917-1997) -Germany (1874-1945) -Introduction to Notgeld Closing Thoughts References
Paper Money Collapse
Author: Detlev S. Schlichter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118877322
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Explore the inevitable collapse of the fiat monetary system Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money, Second Edition challenges the mainstream consensus on money and monetary policy. While it is today generally believed that the transition from 'hard' and inflexible commodity money (such as a gold standard) to entirely flexible and potentially unlimited fiat money under national central banks allows for superior economic stability, Paper Money Collapse shows that the opposite is true. Systems of highly elastic and constantly expanding money are not only unnecessary, even for growing economies, they are always extremely destabilizing. Over time, they must lead to substantial imbalances, including excessive levels of debt and distorted asset prices, that will require ever faster money production to sustain. Ultimately, however, there is no alternative to a complete liquidation of these distortions. Based on insights of many renowned economists and in particular of the Austrian School of Economics, the book explains through rigorous logic and in precise language why our system of flexible fiat money is incompatible with a market economy and therefore unsustainable. Paper money systems have always led to economic disintegration—without exception—throughout history. It will not be different for our system and we may be closer to the endgame than many think. The updated second edition incorporates: A new introduction and an extended outlook section that discusses various "endgames" Responses to criticisms, alternative views, and a critical assessment of 'solutions' Comments on recent policy trends, including attempts to exit the 'easy money' policy mode An evaluation of new crypto-currency Bitcoin Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money, Second Edition clarifies the problem of paper money clearly and eloquently, and proposes multiple routes to a solution.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118877322
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Explore the inevitable collapse of the fiat monetary system Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money, Second Edition challenges the mainstream consensus on money and monetary policy. While it is today generally believed that the transition from 'hard' and inflexible commodity money (such as a gold standard) to entirely flexible and potentially unlimited fiat money under national central banks allows for superior economic stability, Paper Money Collapse shows that the opposite is true. Systems of highly elastic and constantly expanding money are not only unnecessary, even for growing economies, they are always extremely destabilizing. Over time, they must lead to substantial imbalances, including excessive levels of debt and distorted asset prices, that will require ever faster money production to sustain. Ultimately, however, there is no alternative to a complete liquidation of these distortions. Based on insights of many renowned economists and in particular of the Austrian School of Economics, the book explains through rigorous logic and in precise language why our system of flexible fiat money is incompatible with a market economy and therefore unsustainable. Paper money systems have always led to economic disintegration—without exception—throughout history. It will not be different for our system and we may be closer to the endgame than many think. The updated second edition incorporates: A new introduction and an extended outlook section that discusses various "endgames" Responses to criticisms, alternative views, and a critical assessment of 'solutions' Comments on recent policy trends, including attempts to exit the 'easy money' policy mode An evaluation of new crypto-currency Bitcoin Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money, Second Edition clarifies the problem of paper money clearly and eloquently, and proposes multiple routes to a solution.
Bank Notes and Shinplasters
Author: Joshua R. Greenberg
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The colorful history of paper money before the Civil War Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American republic with upwards of 10,000 unique and legal bank notes. This number does not even include the plethora of counterfeit bills and the countless shinplasters of questionable legality issued by unregulated merchants, firms, and municipalities. Adding to the chaos was the idiosyncratic method for negotiating their value, an often manipulative face-to-face discussion consciously separated from any haggling over the price of the work, goods, or services for sale. In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how ordinary Americans accumulated and wielded the financial knowledge required to navigate interpersonal bank note transactions. Locating evidence of Americans grappling with their money in fiction, correspondence, newspapers, printed ephemera, government documents, legal cases, and even on the money itself, Greenberg argues Americans, by necessity, developed the ability to analyze the value of paper financial instruments, assess the strength of banking institutions, and even track legislative changes that might alter the rules of currency circulation. In his examination of the doodles, calculations, political screeds, and commercial stamps that ended up on bank bills, he connects the material culture of cash to financial, political, and intellectual history. The book demonstrates that the shift from state-regulated banks and private shinplaster producers to federally authorized paper money in the Civil War era led to the erasure of the skill, knowledge, and lived experience with banking that informed debates over economic policy. The end result, Greenberg writes, has been a diminished public understanding of how currency and the financial sector operate in our contemporary era, from the 2008 recession to the rise of Bitcoin.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812252241
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The colorful history of paper money before the Civil War Before Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the United States, the proliferation of loosely regulated banks saturated the early American republic with upwards of 10,000 unique and legal bank notes. This number does not even include the plethora of counterfeit bills and the countless shinplasters of questionable legality issued by unregulated merchants, firms, and municipalities. Adding to the chaos was the idiosyncratic method for negotiating their value, an often manipulative face-to-face discussion consciously separated from any haggling over the price of the work, goods, or services for sale. In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how ordinary Americans accumulated and wielded the financial knowledge required to navigate interpersonal bank note transactions. Locating evidence of Americans grappling with their money in fiction, correspondence, newspapers, printed ephemera, government documents, legal cases, and even on the money itself, Greenberg argues Americans, by necessity, developed the ability to analyze the value of paper financial instruments, assess the strength of banking institutions, and even track legislative changes that might alter the rules of currency circulation. In his examination of the doodles, calculations, political screeds, and commercial stamps that ended up on bank bills, he connects the material culture of cash to financial, political, and intellectual history. The book demonstrates that the shift from state-regulated banks and private shinplaster producers to federally authorized paper money in the Civil War era led to the erasure of the skill, knowledge, and lived experience with banking that informed debates over economic policy. The end result, Greenberg writes, has been a diminished public understanding of how currency and the financial sector operate in our contemporary era, from the 2008 recession to the rise of Bitcoin.
Comprehensive Catalog of Confederate Paper Money
Author: Grover Criswell
Publisher: B N R Press
ISBN: 9780931960475
Category : Paper money
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: B N R Press
ISBN: 9780931960475
Category : Paper money
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Paper Money Messages
Author: Jeffrey Wing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781981161362
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A wide range of readers will be intrigued by the subject of paper money. This book is highly illustrated, making it an enticing study for those that simply enjoy the many art forms. This book will also show history in a new and exciting way. This book will challenge your understanding of history!This book focuses on the German notgeld (Emergency money) in the early 1900's. It has a wide range of subjects including inflation, Christianity, battles, witches, spirits, Jewish history, anti-Semitism, and NAZI propaganda.This book documents a time in history when inflation was so significant that the price of goods would increase by the hour. Ultimately 1,000,000,000,000 mark was equal to 22 cents!This book shows many controversial images and explains some ugly history. Stories of the power of the Catholic church and the Protestant reformation are discussed. The stories of many martyrs are told. There is also emergency money that documents the miracles of the Catholic Church in detail. Enjoy this pictorial perspective of this interesting money and discover the messages they present.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781981161362
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
A wide range of readers will be intrigued by the subject of paper money. This book is highly illustrated, making it an enticing study for those that simply enjoy the many art forms. This book will also show history in a new and exciting way. This book will challenge your understanding of history!This book focuses on the German notgeld (Emergency money) in the early 1900's. It has a wide range of subjects including inflation, Christianity, battles, witches, spirits, Jewish history, anti-Semitism, and NAZI propaganda.This book documents a time in history when inflation was so significant that the price of goods would increase by the hour. Ultimately 1,000,000,000,000 mark was equal to 22 cents!This book shows many controversial images and explains some ugly history. Stories of the power of the Catholic church and the Protestant reformation are discussed. The stories of many martyrs are told. There is also emergency money that documents the miracles of the Catholic Church in detail. Enjoy this pictorial perspective of this interesting money and discover the messages they present.
Florida Paper Money
Author: Ronald J. Benice
Publisher: McFarland Publishing
ISBN: 9780786466054
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The earliest known dated Florida currency was issued by Gregor MacGregor for his independent Republic of the Floridas, which he established on Amelia Island in 1817. Tying together the history and economic development of the state, this catalog of Florida paper money includes currency from Colonial days through the Great Depression.
Publisher: McFarland Publishing
ISBN: 9780786466054
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The earliest known dated Florida currency was issued by Gregor MacGregor for his independent Republic of the Floridas, which he established on Amelia Island in 1817. Tying together the history and economic development of the state, this catalog of Florida paper money includes currency from Colonial days through the Great Depression.
The Value of Money
Author: Ellen R. Feingold
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 193562380X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Value of Money celebrates the power of using monetary objects to explore history. This richly illustrated book features over 175 objects from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s National Numismatic Collection. With objects from every inhabited continent, spanning more than 2,600 years, this book showcases the National Numismatic Collection’s unique strengths, including the geographic and chronological diversity of the collection and the stunning rarities it contains. The companion volume to a major exhibition of the same name, this book examines the origins of money, new monetary technologies, the political and cultural messages money conveys, numismatic art and design, and the practice of collecting money. The Value of Money connects American history to global histories of exchange, cultural interaction and expression, political change, and innovation.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 193562380X
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Value of Money celebrates the power of using monetary objects to explore history. This richly illustrated book features over 175 objects from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s National Numismatic Collection. With objects from every inhabited continent, spanning more than 2,600 years, this book showcases the National Numismatic Collection’s unique strengths, including the geographic and chronological diversity of the collection and the stunning rarities it contains. The companion volume to a major exhibition of the same name, this book examines the origins of money, new monetary technologies, the political and cultural messages money conveys, numismatic art and design, and the practice of collecting money. The Value of Money connects American history to global histories of exchange, cultural interaction and expression, political change, and innovation.
What Money Can't Buy
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429942584
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429942584
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
Money
Author: Jacob Goldstein
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316417181
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs. Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century. At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin. One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad. Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 0316417181
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up thing that has evolved over time to suit humanity's changing needs. Money only works because we all agree to believe in it. In Money, Jacob Goldstein shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century. At the heart of the story are the fringe thinkers and world leaders who reimagined money. Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor, created paper money backed by nothing, centuries before it appeared in the west. John Law, a professional gambler and convicted murderer, brought modern money to France (and destroyed the country's economy). The cypherpunks, a group of radical libertarian computer programmers, paved the way for bitcoin. One thing they all realized: what counts as money (and what doesn't) is the result of choices we make, and those choices have a profound effect on who gets more stuff and who gets less, who gets to take risks when times are good, and who gets screwed when things go bad. Lively, accessible, and full of interesting details (like the 43-pound copper coins that 17th-century Swedes carried strapped to their backs), Money is the story of the choices that gave us money as we know it today.
Happy Money
Author: Elizabeth Dunn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476740704
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476740704
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right. Two rising stars in behavioral science explain how money can buy happiness—if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Happy Money offers a tour of new research on the science of spending. Most people recognize that they need professional advice on how to earn, save, and invest their money. When it comes to spending that money, most people just follow their intuitions. But scientific research shows that those intuitions are often wrong. Happy Money explains why you can get more happiness for your money by following five principles, from choosing experiences over stuff to spending money on others. And the five principles can be used not only by individuals but by companies seeking to create happier employees and provide “happier products” to their customers. Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton show how companies from Google to Pepsi to Crate & Barrel have put these ideas into action. Along the way, the authors describe new research that reveals that luxury cars often provide no more pleasure than economy models, that commercials can actually enhance the enjoyment of watching television, and that residents of many cities frequently miss out on inexpensive pleasures in their hometowns. By the end of this book, readers will ask themselves one simple question whenever they reach for their wallets: Am I getting the biggest happiness bang for my buck?