Evaluate financial decisions over time
Assess investment risk and diversification
Analyze asset values and financial market behavior
How can economics help you make smarter decisions about your money? In this course, you will apply economic concepts to personal finance, investing, and asset market behavior.
You will explore how economists think about the value of money over time, investment growth, financial risk, diversification, and asset pricing. Markets do not always behave rationally, and you will learn how speculative bubbles, meme stocks, and investment scams can push prices away from fundamental value.
By the end of the course, you will have an economic framework for evaluating investments, interpreting developments in financial markets, and making more informed financial decisions. Learners without a background in economics may benefit from first completing Principles of Economics: Supply, Demand, and Market Fundamentals.
