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Lately I’ve been doing a bit of [tag]reading[/tag], much of it non-fiction. The latest book I’ve finished is Charles Wheelan’s [tag]Naked Economics[/tag].

I don’t know what prompted me to pick it up in the bookstore a few weeks ago, much less seek it out in the public library here to finish it. Perhaps I am feeling academic withdrawal or something and reading is my only way to get my fix.

Anyhow, much unlike my time actually in school, in reading this book I actually had some decent questions I wanted to ask and so I went ahead and emailed them over to Mr. Wheelan. He was much quicker about replying than that Freakonomics guy, Stephen Levitt, and I was even in his class at the time. Maybe it’s because he’s not quite the celebrity Levitt seems to be these days. It’s a pity though, because I thought Naked Economics was quite a good read. (Not to say Freakonomics wasn’t, don’t get me wrong).

Unfortunately my questions weren’t really best directed to Mr. Wheelan but the authors of the papers he was citing. And accordingly, I’ve since emailed them my questions instead and am waiting to hear back.

It’s curious to me that I never did this while in school, presumably because any questions about whatever text I was using could be addressed in class, but now that doing that is no longer an option, I am instead moved to following up these questions on my own.

I feel like such a nerd.