THE COST OF SAVING: Why the World's Most Trusted Financial Advice Is Quietly Destroying Lives - Brossura

George, Babu

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798247828662

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2026

Riassunto

The Cost of Saving is a paradigm-shifting work that challenges the most deeply held assumption in personal finance: that saving money is always a moral and strategic good. Drawing on management science, behavioral economics, neuroscience, cultural theory, and decades of observing how real people build (or fail to build) meaningful lives, Dr. Babu George makes a rigorous and provocative case that the relentless cultural emphasis on frugality, delayed gratification, and austerity has produced generations of people who are financially cautious but strategically impoverished. The book introduces original frameworks, including the Life Portfolio Model, the concept of Experiential IRR, and Identity Capital Theory, to demonstrate that human beings are not savings accounts but dynamic systems whose value depends on investment, exposure, and timely risk. This is not a book against saving. It is a book against saving stupidly, saving fearfully, and saving at the cost of becoming someone worth investing in. Part personal finance manual, part strategic management treatise, part self-help intervention, The Cost of Saving will unsettle anyone who has ever felt virtuous for suffering, and liberate anyone who has suspected that life is not a spreadsheet.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798247828662
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 74
• Contatto del produttore: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Lussemburgo