Michael Munger

You and Anish are both pessimists, chicken littles here.

So especially Anish since our Mike Munger episode, the ship has sailed and everything is doomed.

Well, I feel that way sometimes too.

Um, I think that's a nice, nice depressing way to end.

I mentioned this to you guys yesterday.

I had a chance to catch up, have breakfast with my dear friend, political mentor, Dr. Michael Munger, Duke economist, longtime friend of our show.

Many of you have enjoyed those interviews we've done over the years.

He was in town for a big economic convention downtown.

The government, it's the unicorn.

It never lives up to the expectation, even though the expectation is always great.

Dr. Michael Munger, learn Liberty.

If you want to check out more of the videos, he's done quite a few of them over the years.

Got to meet up with, have breakfast with, great friend of our show.

You guys love him, Dr. Michael Munger.

Duke economist, longtime friend of our program.

We try to have him on a couple times a year, you guys.

You know, we've had Josh Umbehr on, who's talked about the true price of a lot of things he offers, twenty dollars for a DEXA scan.

And when we had Michael Munger on, he was saying we don't know the true value of a lot of the things we do because there is no price mechanism.

So if there's no price mechanism-

Mm-hmm

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[upbeat music] 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 EconTalk, 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 contain a year of Munger.

You can listen to Mike and me for once a week for a year or an episode for every card in deck of cards, which has no meaning whatsoever.

So the, the ones who thought that government is a shared enterprise for trying to work out the best, uh, compromises that we can for the country, they're disappearing.

What's replacing them is people who think that we have to win, and the, the, the idea that you have to win is probably going to lead to losing.

And I guess today has been Mike Munger.

Mike, thanks for being part of EconTalk.

This is Mike Munger, the knower of important things.

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