- Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science File:Naked economics.large.jpg Author(s) Charles Wheelan Country United States of America Language English Subject(s) Economics Publisher W. W. Norton & Company Publication date September 15, 2002 (1st edition) Media type Print (Hardback, Paperback) Pages 260 ISBN 0393049825 OCLC Number 49351809 Dewey Decimal 330 21 LC Classification HB171 .W54 2002 Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science is a book by Charles Wheelan that seeks to translate basic economic issues into a format that can be easily read by people with little or no previous knowledge of economics. The Chicago Tribune described the book as "Translat[ing] the arcane and often inscrutable jargon of the professional economist into language accessible to the inquiring but frustrated layman."[1]
It was translated into Arabic in 2008, and published under the same title: الاقتصاد عاريا by Kalemat Arabia for Translation and Publishing, an Egyptian publishing house.
There is now a fully revised and updated version of this book with a Foreword by Burton G. Malkeil, published in 2010
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