Monetary Wisdom : Monetary Aspirations Impact Decision-Making

• Inspires readers to learn one of the world’s most often used money attitude measures
• Notices that, in modern societies, money is power at the individual level
• Suggests that monetary aspirations (not money itself) predict cheating
• Profiles that reducing stress curbs dishonesty directly and indirectly
• Illustrates that leaders promote employees’ honesty and creativity
• Reveals how corruption expands prospect theory to a global level
• Explores the contexts to achieve balanced aspirations and serenity

Thomas Li-Ping Tang (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University) is currently Professor Emeritus of Management, at the Jennings A. Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). He has presented 263 papers in 27 countries and published more than 220 articles/chapters in 6 languages, including 33 on the Financial Times’ Top 50 Journals list. Researchers have substantiated his monetary wisdom in more than 50 countries across six continents and cited him in Bloomberg, CNN, and Financial Times. Köseoglu, Yildiz, and Ciftci (2018) ranked him the 8th in the world for his contributions to business ethics (1960-2015). He has served on the editorial board of 15 journals and as an associate editor for 2. As a recipient of the Career Achievement Award (MTSU) and the Best Reviewer Awards (Emerald and the Academy of Management), he is a Fellow of the International Association of Applied Psychology.