Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Witt, Philip H., Journal of Psychiatry & Law
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, by Charles Wheelan (New York, NY: Norton, 2002), 260 pp., $15.95.
Most of us recall introductory economics courses in college, dense with graphs like demand curves, supply curves, and indifference curves, and terms (the definitions of which we have long since forgotten) such as efficiency, absolute advantage, comparative advantage, and marginal utility. If we progressed beyond introductory economics, we were immediately faced with dense algebraic notation and assignments to use calculus analyze economic functions. It is all too easy to associate economics only with this challenging mathematical structure.
But economics is …
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Publication information:
Article title: Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science.
Contributors: Witt, Philip H. - Author.
Journal title: Journal of Psychiatry & Law.
Volume: 35.
Issue: 2
Publication date: Summer 2007.
Page number: 225+.
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