Michael Munger | |
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Born | Gotha, Florida, U.S. | September 23, 1958
Nationality | American |
Academic career | |
Field | Political science Economics |
Institution | Duke University Dartmouth College University of Texas at Austin UNC-Chapel Hill Federal Trade Commission |
Alma mater | Davidson College (BA) Washington University in St. Louis (MA, Ph.D.) |
Contributions | Contributions to bleeding-heart libertarian theory |
Information at IDEAS / RePEc |
Michael Curtis Munger (/ˈmʌnɡər/; born September 23, 1958)[1] 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. He is a prolific writer, and his book Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices is now a standard work in the field of policy analysis.[citation needed] In 2008 he was the Libertarian candidate for Governor of North Carolina.