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Charles N. Steele

Director, Center for Commerce and Freedom, Associate Professor of Economics, Herman A. and Suzanne S. Dettwiler Chair in Economics at Hillsdale College

Charles Steele is Director, Center for Commerce and Freedom, Associate Professor of Economics, Herman A. and Suzanne S. Dettwiler Chair in Economics at Hillsdale College.

He has taught economics at the graduate and undergraduate levels in China, Russia, Ukraine, and the United States, and has also worked in private consulting. At Hillsdale College, he teaches a variety of upper division economics courses, among them a two-semester sequence in History of Economic Thought, Environmental and Resource Economics, Mathematical Economics, and Austrian Economics II. His research interests include environmental and resource economics, economics of space development, and economics of institutions and institutional change.

Steele is a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute.

Outside of economics, his interests include trail running and running ultramarathons, mountaineering, and other outdoor activities.