The Wealth Delusion: How Money and Power Distort the Mind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781966703280)

You already know something is wrong with them.

The boss who takes credit for everything and feels nothing. The
billionaire who lectures you about sacrifice from a private jet. The
CEO whose entire company walked on eggshells while he collected
awards. You've seen it. You've worked for it. You've paid for it.

Now there's a name for it. And peer-reviewed citations.

The Wealth Delusion maps the six-stage cycle by which extreme
wealth and concentrated power reliably distort the human mind -
documented in neuroscience labs, psychology journals, and decades
of organizational behavior research that most people never see.

Inside, you'll discover:

• Why your brain on money looks neurologically similar to your
  brain on cocaine - and what happens when the supply never stops


• The documented mechanism by which power suppresses the brain's
  ability to read other people's emotions - measurable in imaging studies


• Why corporate hierarchies function as psychopathy screening tools
  that preferentially promote the profiles most dangerous to everyone else


• How philanthropy works as reputation management and regulatory
  capture - and why the numbers prove it


• What DARVO is, how it's used by the powerful, and how to neutralize it


• What structural policy changes the evidence actually supports -
  and what you can do right now

This is not a book about hating wealthy people. It is a book
about understanding what concentrated money and power reliably do
to human beings - and why a functioning society has every reason
to care about that, regardless of political affiliation.

Smart. Funny. Furious. Evidence-based.
The book your economist friends wish they'd written and your
therapist is going to start recommending.

For readers of Dacher Keltner, Jon Ronson, Anand Giridharadas,
and Thomas Piketty.

Author: Paul Green
ISBN-10: 1966703287
ISBN-13: 9781966703280
Publisher: Humbolton
Language: English
Published: 04/02/2026
Pages: 246
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.52d