Personal Finance: Making Better Decisions and Building a Better Financial System

Harvard FAS

People face a daunting array of problems in managing their financial lives. Taking out student loans, managing bank accounts and credit cards, financing a home purchase with a mortgage, and saving for retirement are all major challenges. There is evidence that many people lack the skills they need to meet these challenges. This course has three goals. The first objective is to give participants a basic grounding in financial literacy: principles of finance that we can…