Charles Wheelan writes accessible nonfiction about economics, statistics, public policy and the way numerical ideas shape everyday decisions. Naked Economics explains markets, incentives, trade, taxation and government policy without relying heavily on equations, while Naked Statistics does the same for probability, regression, polling and data interpretation. The Centrist Manifesto turns from explanation to political argument, and The Rationing develops similar interests through fiction, imagining a public-health crisis in which a scarce drug forces difficult decisions about allocation and power. Wheelan’s nonfiction is conversational, example-led and aimed at readers who want the logic behind economic or statistical concepts without a textbook approach. Across economics, popular statistics and public policy, Wheelan repeatedly turns abstract ideas into ordinary decisions and institutional examples; Tim Harford occupies similar territory with a comparable preference for explanation over formal mathematics. Read more Less
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