An Insurgency of the Rational: Charlie Wheelan at TEDxCoconutGrove

Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. His most recent book, The Centrist Manifesto, was published in April of 2013 by W.W. Norton. The book calls for a new political party "of the middle." Wheelan is also the author of Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, which reached the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction shortly after publication. His first book, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science, is now published in 12 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew. From 1997 to 2002, Wheelan was the Midwest correspondent for The Economist. He holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago, a Master's in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife and three children.

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