collected
Nonfiction · Psychology · Business & Economics · Social Science
About 6 h 30 min · at 30 minutes a day, about 13 days
Estimated from the page count of this edition. Dense books can take longer than the estimate.
Henry Clay Lindgren examines the emotional meaning of money, connecting everyday financial choices with self-worth and social expectations. His coverage ranges from borrowing and lending to spending, giving, budgeting, saving, and investing, asking how hopes and fears influence what people do with their resources. Money appears throughout as both a practical necessity and a measure through which people judge themselves and others.
The approach is analytical, moving between recognizable habits and broader questions about society and values. Everyday situations provide concrete points of reference, but the main purpose is to understand financial motives rather than supply a budgeting method or investment strategy.
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Not really, the main purpose is to explain financial motives rather than provide a budgeting method or investment strategy. Borrowing, spending, saving, and investing serve as ways to examine how hopes, fears, and self-worth shape financial choices.
It suits someone interested in the psychology of everyday financial choices and the social meaning of wealth. The emphasis is on reflecting on motives and values, with money treated as both a practical necessity and a way people judge themselves and others.
Not really, the prose is direct, the structure is relatively straightforward, and little prior knowledge is needed. The academic style and measured pace call for some attention, while recognizable financial habits give the more abstract discussion concrete points of reference.
Money's connections with identity, power, and social expectations are central. Lindgren examines how financial behavior expresses self-worth and how hopes and fears influence borrowing, lending, giving, and other choices about resources.
About 324 pages in the Krieger Pub. Co. 1991 edition.
Krieger Pub. Co. · 1991 · Hardcover. ISBN 9780894643996.
About 6 hours 30 minutes at 50 pages an hour, based on the 324-page Krieger Pub. Co. edition. Dense books can take longer.
Henry Clay Lindgren was an academic psychologist and textbook author who made research usable for students, teachers, and counselors. Drawing on experience in guidance, school counseling, and rehabilitation, he approached psychology through ordinary decisions and institutional settings. Educational Psychology in the Classroom treats teachers as observers of behavior, then connects development, motivation, learning research, grouping, and classroom consequences within a broad social frame. The Psychology of Money shifts the same applied method to borrowing, lending, spending, saving, self-worth, and social power. There Lindgren combines studies and case material with familiar experience in nontechnical, subtly humorous prose. His serious collecting of ancient coins also produced reference books based on his collection.
Thomas Erikson
Psychology · Social Science · Business & Economics
