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 ...

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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 ...

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Did you take a personal finance course in high school? How about college? Depending on when you attended classes, you might have learned now-outdated information such as “how to balance a checkbook” ...

Students and faculty in the financial actuarial mathematics major have expressed anger and confusion over the Department of Mathematics’ decision to not rehire any of the eight lecturers in 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.