Michael Munger

Michael Munger is a Professor of Political Science, Economics, and Public Policy at Duke University and Senior Fellow of the American Institute for Economic Research.

His degrees are from Davidson College, Washington University in St. Louis, and Washington University.

Munger’s research interests include regulation, political institutions, and political economy.

Latest by Michael Munger

Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less Regulation, Low Inflation

Milei’s First Year: Liberty, Less Regulation, Low Inflation

There’s something happening here. What it is, ain’t exactly clear. Around the world, there is growing impatience with the orthodoxies and condescension of the progressive left. In the past two years, right-leaning parties have outperformed electoral expectations in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Portugal, and countries such as Hungary, Poland, and — again...

By Michael Munger

Our Kids Have No Economic Immune Systems

Our Kids Have No Economic Immune Systems

The sanitation or “hygiene hypothesis” holds that humans need environmental adversity for our immune systems to mature and function normally. The “Old Friends” corollary holds that a variety of “helminths” — tiny parasitic worms, whose eggs have been found in human feces for the past five thousand years, at least — temper and absorb the...

By Michael Munger