19 Facts About Michael Munger

Michael Curtis Munger is an American economist and a former chair of the political science department at Duke University, where he continues to teach political science, public policy, and economics.

Michael Munger is a prolific writer, and his book Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices is a standard work in the field of policy analysis.

Michael Munger studied economics at Davidson College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1980.

Michael Munger then did graduate study in economics at Washington University in St Louis, earning a Master of Arts in 1982 and a Ph.

Michael Munger is a past president of the Public Choice Society, was the North American Editor of the journal Public Choice, and is a co-editor of The Independent Review, a publication of the Independent Institute, where he is a senior fellow.

Michael Munger has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics and has had books published with the Cambridge University Press and the University of Michigan Press.

Michael Munger serves as an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute and as a member of the Academic Council of the Jack Miller Center.

Michael Munger writes for the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog and the Learn Liberty blog.

Michael Munger has worked as a staff economist for the Federal Trade Commission during the Reagan Administration and taught at Dartmouth College, the University of Texas at Austin, and UNC-Chapel Hill before becoming a political science professor at Duke University in 1997.

In 2011, Michael Munger portrayed a security guard at the beginning of a video titled "Fight of the Century", featuring a rap battle between actors portraying economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, discussing the effects of government spending on the economy.

Michael Munger has run for multiple state-level offices in North Carolina as a Libertarian.

Michael Munger ran for the North Carolina State Senate to represent District 13 in 2022.

In 2020, Michael Munger ran as a Libertarian for the North Carolina House of Representatives in District 34.

Michael Munger appeared as an expert witness in other cases on behalf of the Green Party and the ACLU.

Michael Munger appeared as one of two keynote speakers at the national Libertarian convention in Denver in May 2008.

Michael Munger later made history as the first third-party candidate to participate in a live, televised gubernatorial debate in North Carolina.

Michael Munger argues that, since most would stay in public school, this would have the effect of increasing aid to poor schools.

Michael Munger opposes the death penalty, and believes children of illegal immigrants should be allowed into University of North Carolina System schools and community colleges.

Michael Munger believes that the government should do what it can to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country, but once they are here, they should be treated fairly and given access to education.