Public Choice and Politics Without Romance (with Mike Munger)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to two thousand and six. Our email address is mail at econtalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is August eighteenth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is Mike Munger of Duke University. This episode is scheduled to be the one thousand and sixty ninth episode of Econ Talk. And this will be Mike's fifty second appearance of those one thousand and sixty nine.

Which means our archive after this is published. Will it contain a year of Munger? You can listen to Mike AMI for once a week for a year. Or an episode for every card and deck of cards, which has no meaning whatsoever. Uh he was last here in March of twenty twenty six.

Talking about the UN C Duke basketball experience and how Duke allocates tickets for that game. Our topic for today Is a set of essays that Mike has written. Uh, and we're going to focus on the one on public choice, which is a technical term. that we uh hope to explore in our conversation today. Mike, welcome back to Econ Talk. Um I

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