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 ...