A good economic education may help to avoid individual financial problems. This is an important precondition for the active contribution to society. What do the respective educational provisions be like, which target groups should be aimed for and what is the current state of research in this field? In order to answer these questions the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) initiated a research group, the results of which are documented in this publication. The topics of the book range from the importance of a basic economic education for adults, the conception of educational provisions, the objective and subjective requirements of the target groups, the multitude of offers and the discrepancies between demand and supply to the required competences.