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Clever mental tricks for making money

29 January 2018

Successful money management is as much a matter of psychology as economics, says Tim Harford, the Financial Times’ ‘Undercover economist’.

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Behavioural economics helps us to understand both what we do, and what we should do.

When people hear that I’m an economist they often ask me for financial tips – a touching vote of confidence. Yet the truth is that successful money management is as much a matter of psychology as it is of economics. The way we judge or

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