I teach public policy and economics at Dartmouth College. Prior to coming to Dartmouth full-time in the fall of 2012, I taught for eight years at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. My courses generally address “policy in the real world.” How can we use economics and other academic tools to deal with real public challenges–immigration, climate change, mounting federal debt, and so on. I am the author of Introduction to Public Policy, a text that introduces of a set of tools for basic policy analysis. Below is an article by Steve Koppes that appeared in a campus newspaper in 2005 after I was voted “best professor in a non-core course” by the Harris School student body. Charles Wheelan, Instructor in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies.

Charles Wheelan is the man with the anti-Midas touch. By Steve Koppes (News Office) “If he touched gold he would turn it to life,” wrote Princeton University professor Burton Malkiel in the foreword to Wheelan’s book Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, published in 2002. 񪠷᳼ 餰󠴥am Fortress 2. It appears that Wheelan applies the same touch to his University courses. Though he became a Lecturer in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies only last year, students in his Analyzing and Commun- icating Policy course already have felt his energizing anti-Midas touch.