Michael C. Munger is Pfizer,Inc./Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. University Distinguished Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He received his PhD in Economics at Washington University in St. Louis in 1984. Following appointments at Dartmouth College, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Munger moved to Duke in 1997. He was Chair of the Political Science Department from 2000 through 2010.
He has won three university-wide teaching awards (the Howard Johnson Award, an NAACP “Image” Award for teaching about race, and admission to the Bass Society of Teaching Fellows).
Munger’s books include Choosing in Groups, coauthored with his son, Kevin Munger, and The Thing Itself, both in 2015, and Tomorrow 3.0 in 2018. His most recent book, published in 2021 by IEA, addresses the platform economy, and is entitled The Sharing Economy.