Morgan Housel

American author, investor, and partner at Collaborative Fund. Author of The Psychology of Money (2020), which has sold over 10 million copies and is among the most widely-read personal finance books of the decade, and Same As Ever (2023). Former columnist at The Wall Street Journal and The Motley Fool. Board member at Markel Corporation.

Known for applying psychology and behavioural science to personal finance; the central argument of The Psychology of Money is that financial success depends more on behaviour than on knowledge. Key themes: contentment vs. happiness, compounding as a function of survival, independence as a spectrum, the contrast effect in wealth perception.

In the wiki

• Morgan Housel on Contentment, the Independence Spectrum, and Why Survival Is the Only Strategy (The Knowledge Project, ~2023–2024) — money as vaccine; independence spectrum; survival = compounding; housing as the upstream problem