Michael C. Munger is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Economics at Duke University, North Carolina. He studied for a Ph.D. under Barry Weingast and Douglass North (1993 Nobel Prize) at Washington University in St Louis. After working at the US Federal Trade Commission, Munger taught at Dartmouth, Texas, and North Carolina before moving to Duke in 1997. He edited the journal Public Choice from 2005–2009.