{"id":4036,"date":"2010-02-11T10:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2010-02-10T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T23:57:55","slug":"naked-trends-m-feb-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/4036","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Naked Trends&#8221; talk Feb 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Wheelan\"><strong>Charles Wheelan<\/strong><\/a> will speak about \u201c<strong>Naked Trends: What Can Basic Economics Tell Us About The Future<\/strong>\u201d on Mon., Feb. 15 @7pm in the Young Auditorium. This talk is part of the 2009\/2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/cls\/about\/lecture\/\">Contemporary Issues Lecture Series<\/a> sponsored by the College of Letters and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Wheelan is a faculty member at the University of Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/harrisschool.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/web-pages\/charles-wheelan.asp\">Harris School of Public Policy<\/a> and a former Midwest correspondent for <em>The Economist<\/em>. He writes Yahoo! Finance&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/expert\/archive\/economist\/charles-wheelan\/1\">Naked Economics<\/a>&#8221; column, and he also has written for various publications such as the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>, <em>New York Times<\/em>, and <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>His 2003 book, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RkbV8iSX_hoC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Naked economics: Undressing the dismal science<\/em><\/a>, attempts to make economics more accessible for nonexperts. UWW students and staff may borrow it from other UW libraries via the free <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/vwebv\/selectDatabase\">Universal Borrowing<\/a> service. The article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=buh&amp;AN=12028537&amp;loginpage=login.asp&amp;site=ehost-live\">Of pies and men<\/a>&#8221; (<em>Across the Board<\/em>, Jan\/Feb 2004, vol. 41:no.1, pp. 7-8) provides a brief excerpt from the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles Wheelan will speak about \u201cNaked Trends: What Can Basic Economics Tell Us About The Future\u201d on Mon., Feb. 15 @7pm in the Young Auditorium. This talk is part of the 2009\/2010 Contemporary Issues Lecture Series sponsored by the College &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/4036\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[141,324,198,353],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-connection","tag-articles","tag-authors","tag-economics","tag-lectures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4036"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4039,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4036\/revisions\/4039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}