Economics for Life : : Real-World Financial Literacy / / Donald T. Wargo.
America has evolved into an ownership society. Home-buying decisions, resource allocation, debt exposure, and financial planning for the future are now left to individuals, with little guidance from the companies or institutions they work for. Economics, with its insistence on quantifying ideas and...
Saved in:
| VerfasserIn: | |
|---|---|
| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : Temple University Press,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | North Broad Press
|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Your first big job: how to get it
- Flourishing in your job and well-being in your life
- The importance of behavioral economics
- What is money?
- Analyzing your current financial situation
- Budgets and saving
- Credit cards, auto loans, and other personal debt
- Student loans
- Understanding the time value of money
- Banks and financial institutions
- Buying a home
- Insurance: what do you need?
- Investing fundamentals
- Investing in mutual funds
- Saving for retirement
- Fiscal policy and monetary policy-government intervention in your life.