The 48 Laws of Power vs The Psychology of Money: Which Should You Read?
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The 48 Laws of Power
“Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's finance minister in the first years of his reign, was a generous man who loved lavish parties, pretty women, and poetry.”
Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills three thousand years of the history of power in to forty-eight well explicated laws. As attention--grabbing in its design as it is in its content,…
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The Psychology of Money
Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. How to manage money,…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The 48 Laws of Power has the widest readership — 242819 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| The 48 Laws of Power | The Psychology of Money | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.1 (242819) | 3.4 (21) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 4.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 4.5 (13) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.0 (2298) | 4.5 (46) |
Reception
| The 48 Laws of Power | The Psychology of Money | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 242819 | 424 |
| Editions | 55 | 26 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 530895 | — |
| Reading it now | 70455 | — |
| Written reviews | 12619 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 28853 | 9979 |
| Pages | 195 | 272 |