Math in economics — as well as its smaller cousin finance — is seductive for a number of reasons. One is simply our human brain. Illusory pattern perception is a well-documented occurrence whereby our ...

Some math is more important than other math. Arithmetic may have seemed like a chore when you were a kid, but there's no denying it has been extremely useful in life. Geometry, on the other hand, may ...

Could improving students' math skills boost financial literacy? Some policymakers think so. New data show American teens' money smarts are, at best, middling. Among the 18 countries in the ...

Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the New Jersey Coalition for Financial Education recently completed a series of financial education teacher training classes called "Hard Core Boot Camp." One of the ...

Using computational tools inspired by financial math models developed to predict changes in stock prices, researchers were able to accurately predict how different properties of the HIV surface ...

Spend less than you earn is the golden rule of personal finance. It's incredibly simple, but it's not easy. Your brain likes to get in the way by tricking you to go against what you know to be true.