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ECONOMIC LITERACY AS A CONDITION OF PARTICIPATION OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Ewa CICHOWICZ1
Economic Challenges of Modern Transformations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 1-2 (92-93) 2017, Publication date: 23 May 2017
Keywords: economic literacy, financial exclusion, social exclusion, economic education, stability of the socio-economic system
Abstract The changes taking place in the environment and their consequences causes the growth of the importance of economic literacy which constitute the participation in the socioeconomic system. At the same time there is a lack of awareness in this field and level of economic knowledge is too low in relation to the environmental challenges and the needs and expectations of the individual. The article focuses on identifying the importance of economic literacy in functioning of the individual in the socio-economic system. The considerations preceding the diagnosis of the state of knowledge and then pointing to the causes and consequences.
Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
E-mail: ewa.cichowicz@sgh.waw.pl