Engaging, informative, and balanced: Fantastic overview of economics for the lay reader

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	• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science Charles Wheelan W. W. Norton & Company, 2003 - 260 pages average customer review:based on 122 reviews view larger image
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Engaging, informative, and balanced: Fantastic overview of economics for the lay reader

This fantastic book contains an incredible wealth of information, but is written in an engaging style that makes the concepts seem intuitive and relevant. Open this book to any random page and you will find a great deal of highly readable information and concepts. Wheeler manages to elucidate many of the key concepts of economics, sacrificing little in the way of depth (at least for the lay reader) while tying many of the ideas together and conveying a level of excitement for the subject that is laudable.

Finally, perhaps the most impressive aspect of this book (can you tell how much I loved it?) is how balanced it is. Wheeler sidesteps the common tendency to simply pick a side and add to the noisiness of the tired left-right debates over free markets, globalization, and the like. Instead, he examines contentious issues in a way that highlights their complexity and the inherent tradeoffs in any position, while making these potentially confusing issues seem startlingly clear.

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Good Stuff!

Mr. Wheelan gives us a short course for Eco 101 and 102 in this straight forward easy to understand book. His often humorous approach should be used more by the real text book writers. Heck, this could be used as a basic economics textbook! A must read for anybody interested in what makes an economy tick. A couple of years old now but still a good read.

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Good basics, but most surely written by a Right-Wing Econ Guy

It's a good book for some (very opininated) basics on Econ. This book will make any left-wingers bristle from some of the callus things he says about trade and/or sweatshops.

Nonetheless, if you want to understand the underlying principles of Econ, this is a good book to add to your library. Just make sure to read this with a grain of salt, and maybe offset his opinions with something from the other side of the political fence.

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Eye Opener

If you are like me, who has never studied Economics or never liked this subject, then this is the book you would like to READ.

Its an eye opener, it has changed my thought process and I am sure it can help people who have never studied this subject.

I liked Charles style and he has quoted good examples and makes me feel that its an easy world and what is the role of economy and ecomist.

On a side note: Interesnting fact- In my discussions I have started quoting examples from this book :-).

Great Read

The book is different than many econ books in that it dispenses with a bunch of technical terms and charts but remains scholarly. I used it as a reference on a couple of papers in my MBA class on economics.

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