Abstract:
What is the ability of Italians to understand wider economic and financial dimensions? Do they know what they do when they invest their savings, use credit cards or gamble with their money? Knowing how to handle the numbers, terms, and norms that we use is a major issue for the ever-increasing implications that financial capacity will have on our lives. This article seeks to identify cognitive and regulatory limits and both individual and collective tools to defend from so many occasions where the economic dimension involves the possibility of financial loss or cost-opportunity and the implications that an improvement in economic literacy may lead to the interpretation of one's own situation.
