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Money Management Skills
The Great Courses
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A Great Courses lecture series by Michael Finke on personal finance and money management, aimed at practical decisions about saving, spending, and planning. Commenters frame it as US-focused guidance on getting more value from money over a lifetime.
Commenters point to it as a US-specific companion to research on happier spending, with practical lifetime money advice from narrator Michael Finke.
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Read this summary of the research on how to maximize happiness per dollar.
Happy Money: The Science of Happier Spending https://www.amazon.com/dp/1451665075/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_...
There’s a lot of guidance on which “keeping up with the joneses” spending might actually make you happier. It’s also easier to resist some spending when you can recall a concrete reason from the book that you know that purchase was researched and the happiness was short-lived.
If you’re in the United States you should also read this. The title doesn’t hint at it, but similar ideas of maximizing happiness per dollar spent over lifetime, but more US-specific advice:
Money Management Skills by Michael Finke, The Great Courses, narrated by Michael Finke: https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00Q5DHLBM&source_code=ASSOR...