“Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science” author Charles Wheelan speaking at Berea College Oct. 29

Co-sponsored by the Department of Economics and Business at Berea, the program is free and open to the public.

In “Naked Economics,” Wheelan’s first book, was the author set out to make economics accessible and understandable, even entertaining, to the layman, the book has become a popular economics textbook. Published in 2002 in the U.S. and the U.K., “Naked Economics” was released in paperback in September 2003 and is now being published in seven languages.

“I’ve never liked how basic economics is taught – too dry, too mathematical, too detached from the real world,” says Wheelan.  Another goal in writing the book, he says, was to make it understandable to people who had never had an economics course.  “Economics should not be accessible only to the experts. The ideas are too important and too interesting.”

In his talk at Berea, Wheelan’s topic will be “Undressing Policy and Planning Issues of Today.”