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Office Location: 140 Science Drive, 217 Gross, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 660 4300
Duke Box: 90204
Email Address: munger@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.michaelmunger.com/
Note: I am on leave Fall semester 2019. Feel free to email me at munger@duke.duke.edu, but I may be slow to respond....
Areas of Expertise
Education:
Ph.D., Washington University in St. Louis, 1984
M.A., Washington University in St. Louis, 1981
B.A., Davidson College, 1980
Research Categories: American Politics and Methods
Current projects: Ideology of racism in the antebellum south, An investigation of spatial location games using human subjects
Research Description: Research: Election strategies; campaign finance; methods and American institutions
Teaching (Spring 2024):
Representative Publications (More Publications)
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Professor of Political Science, and Director of the PPE Certificate Program. His primary research focus is on the functioning of markets, regulation, and government institutions. He has taught at Dartmouth College, University of Texas, and University of North Carolina (where he was Director of the Master of Public Administration Program), as well as working as a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission during the Reagan Administration.
Munger is a past President of the Public Choice Society, an international academic society of political scientists and economists with members in 16 countries. He was North American Editor of the journal Public Choice for five years, and is now a Co-Editor of The Independent Review. His recent books include Choosing in Groups (2015, Cambridge U Press) and Tomorrow 3.0 (2018, Cambridge U Press). Munger's most recent book, The Sharing Economy, was published in 2021 by the Institute for Economic Affairs.
Current Ph.D. Students
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