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'Public policy is the process by which groups act collectively--everything from declaring war to installing stoplights. We study public policy in the hopes that we can do better. It is an audacious task. What activities are best handled by the market? How can we act in the face of scientific uncertainty? How can we make sense of the opinions of hundreds of millions of people?

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How can we evaluate trade-offs--economic growth versus environmental protection, for example? How can we even measure our success. This book is a toolkit for understanding the public-policy process and for making better public-policy decisions.'

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The author draws the students into the questions and then turns them toward economics and public-policy analysis concepts.' -- Michael Hammig, Clemson University 'Wheelan's new text is indeed one of the most fluidly written, engaging, sometimes jaunty and sometimes challenging books on the subject. My students will see many topics come alive with this analytical yet unpretentious treatment of public policy principles.

The author draws the students into the questions and then turns them toward economics and public-policy analysis concepts.' -- Gregory Gleason, The University of New Mexico 'By far the best textbook for a course in undergraduate public policy. I have been looking for a text that really incorporates economics into the study of public policy. One cannot truly understand the politics behind policy, and how to analyze policies, without having a basic background in economics, especially microeconomics.Each chapter is beautifully written.

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Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. Epson File Manager Driver. He joined the Dartmouth faculty fulltime in June of 2012. Wheelan’s most recent book, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, was released by W.W.

Norton in January of 2013. Three weeks later, it reached the New York Times bestseller list for hardback nonfiction. The San Francisco Chr Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. He joined the Dartmouth faculty fulltime in June of 2012. Wheelan’s most recent book, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data, was released by W.W.

Norton in January of 2013. Three weeks later, it reached the New York Times bestseller list for hardback nonfiction. The San Francisco Chronicle called it a “brilliant, funny new book.” The New York Times described Wheelan as “the Dave Barry of the coin-flipping set.” From 2004 to 2012, Wheelan was a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He taught several courses on understanding the policy process for Master’s students. For the 2004-05 academic year, he was voted Professor of the Year in a Non-Core Course by the Harris School student body.

In the fall of 2005, Wheelan created and taught the inaugural International Policy Practicum (IPP), in which 12 students studied economic reform in India for an academic term followed by a 10-day trip to Bangalore and Delhi to meet with economists, politicians, educators, civic leaders, and other experts. Subsequent IPPs have visited Brazil; Jordan and Israel; Turkey; Cambodia; and Rwanda and Madagascar. In March of 2009, Wheelan ran unsuccessfully for Congress as the representative from the Illinois 5th District in the special election to replace Rahm Emanuel. In its editorial assessing the race, the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, “Voters will find a ballot filled with impressive and thoughtful candidates...