The De Gruyter Handbook of Personal Finance provides a robust review
of the core topics comprising personal finance, including the primary
models, approaches, and methodologies being used to study particular
topics that comprise the field of personal finance today.
The contributors include many of the world's leading personal finance
researchers, financial service professionals, thought leaders, and
leading contemporary figures conducting research in this area whose work
has shaped--and continues to affect--the way that personal finance is
conceptualized and practiced.
The first section of the handbook provides a broad introduction to the
discipline of personal finance. The following two sections are organized
around the core elements of personal finance research and practice:
saving, investing, asset management, and financial security. The fourth
section introduces future research, practice, and policy directions. The
handbook concludes with a discussion on an educational and research
agenda for the future.
This handbook will be a core reference work for researchers, financial
service practitioners, educators, and policymakers and an excellent
supplementary source of readings for those teaching undergraduate and
graduate-level courses in personal finance, financial planning, consumer
studies, and household finance.
