The Price of Everything: Finding Method in the Madness of What Things Cost

Megan BuskeyPorter marshals an impressive array of research to show all the ways consumers can be shortsighted, self-indulgent, oblivious and inconsistent—not to mention hugely vulnerable to profit-eyed marketers…Most of Porter's evidence is culled from sources like the National Bureau of Economic Research and The Journal of Economic Perspectives—outlets that routinely publish fascinating research cloaked in jargon. His main feat lies in scouring, translating and synthesizing the latest findings of social science into something that the curious layperson would actually enjoy reading.
—The New York Times




Kirkus ReviewsA sweeping examination of the relationships between humans and money.