Charles Wheelan

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Charles Wheelan
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Occupationauthor
Alma materDartmouth College (BA)
Princeton University (MPA)
University of Chicago (PhD)
SpouseLeah Wheelan
ChildrenKatrina, Sophia, and C.J. Wheelan

Charles J. Wheelan (born 1966) is an American professor, journalist, speaker, and is the founder and co-chairman of

special election for Illinois's 5th congressional district, the seat vacated by Rahm Emanuel.[2]

Journalist and author

Wheelan graduated from

Alpha Delta fraternity.[3] From 1997 to 2002, he was the Midwest correspondent for The Economist. He has also written for the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Yahoo! Finance.[4]

Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College.

Wheelan is a regular contributor to the Motley Fool Radio Show on

National Public Radio and to the Eight Forty-Eight program on WBEZ
, Chicago Public Radio.

Wheelan's first book, Naked Economics (2002), is an introduction to economics for lay readers; Naked Statistics (2013) is an introduction to statistics. The Centrist Manifesto (2013) attempts to articulate a centrism that is more than a set of compromises between the political extremes, a perspective Wheelan elsewhere characterizes as

radical centrist
.

Works

Books

References

  1. ^ "Charles Wheelan". Unite America. Retrieved 2019-07-01.
  2. ^ "Wheelan for Congress". Archived from the original on 2011-02-06. Retrieved 2008-12-13.
  3. ^ Dartmouth, Rockefeller Center – "Debating Income Inequality: What's the Problem? What's the Solution?", archived from the original on 2021-12-19, retrieved 2019-01-10
  4. ^ Wheelan, Charles (November 13, 2013). "America's Emerging Radical Center". The Centrist Project website. Accessed December 15, 2013.

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