Economics and Finance

About this course

Economics and finance, studied together, provide both the theoretical framework for understanding how economies work and the practical analytical skills needed to navigate financial markets and institutions. Economics asks how resources are allocated, how prices are set, how growth occurs and how policy can be used to improve outcomes. Finance examines how capital is raised, invested and managed, how risk is priced and how financial institutions and instruments function. Together, they equip you to reason about the forces shaping the economy and the financial system. This distance learning programme from the University of London is designed by academics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, one of the world's leading centres for economics and finance research. You will develop economic reasoning, quantitative skills and the institutional knowledge required to analys

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