Libertarian Party

About the Candidate

Born in Florida in 1958, Michael Munger attended West Orange High 
School in Winter Garden, FL.  He graduated from Davidson College in 
North Carolina in 1980. Prof. Munger received his Ph.D. in Political 
Economy at Washington University in St. Louis in 1984. Following his 
graduate training, he worked as a staff economist at the Federal 
Trade Commission. His first teaching job was in the Economics 
Department at Dartmouth College, followed by appointments in the 
Political Science Department at the University of Texas at Austin 
(1986-1990) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 
(1990-7). He moved to Duke University in 1997, where he now chairs 
the Political Science Department.  He has published more than 100 
articles, and four books, on topics in politics and economics.

He lives in Raleigh, NC with his wife Donna, sons Kevin (18) and Brian 
(16), and two large dogs of indecipherable pedigree.  Munger coaches 
several baseball teams each year in local youth leagues, and writes 
articles and records podcasts on ideas and liberty in a variety of 
venues in his spare time.