The Midas Complex: How Money Drives Us Crazy and What We Can Do About It

Money. It's funny stuff. Cold, hard, and inert, yet it impacts our lives in dynamic ways. Many risk life and limb, work at jobs they hate, marry or divorce for it. Some people will even kill for Money. Most of us employ less drastic means to acquire this so-called medium of exchange. Even so, Money changes us like few other things.
Money is one of the most powerful forces in human culture, yet most of us know very little about its psychological nature. In this book, with courage, candor and...