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Thetextbook.

An original personal-finance textbook, now in its second edition on Top Hat.

Cover of Personal Finance, Second Edition, by Nicholas Carbonaro: a green money plant on black, with the tagline Better Habits, Better Results, Better Future. (view on Top Hat)

Original textbook · Top Hat · 2nd edition, August 2026 · 1st edition, August 2020

Personal Finance

Better habits.Better results.Better future.

An original, interactive digital textbook published by Top Hat, now in its second edition. Designed for college personal-finance courses, including transferable community-college sections, it turns budgeting, credit, investing and retirement into habits that last.

  • Personal finance
  • Top Hat
  • 2nd edition

New in the second edition: a chapter on cryptocurrency.