Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds

Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals.

Who hasn't wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have guaranteed that they alone can illuminate the golden pathway to prosperity—despite strong evidence to the contrary. In fact, too often, they are singing a siren song of devastation. And yet we keep listening.

Invested tells the story of how the ...