Michael C. Munger (born September 23, 1958) is an economist, chair of the political science department at Duke University, and was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 2008.
Munger earned a B.A. in economics at Davidson College (1980), an M.A. in economics at Washington University in St. Louis (1982) and a Ph.D. in economics at Washington University (1984). He is a past president of the Public Choice Society and has been pu...
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Michael C. Munger (born September 23, 1958) is an economist, chair of the political science department at Duke University, and was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina in 2008.
Munger earned a B.A. in economics at Davidson College (1980), an M.A. in economics at Washington University in St. Louis (1982) and a Ph.D. in economics at Washington University (1984). He is a past president of the Public Choice Society and has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics as well as books with Cambridge University Press and the University of Michigan Press.
Munger has worked as a staff economist for the Federal Trade Commission 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 2000, he became the head of Duke's political science department. His research centers around elections...
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