Prolific Author, Economist to Speak April 10
The University of Scranton’s Henry George Lecture Series is Northeastern Pennsylvania’s premier event of its kind, having hosted lectures by a dozen winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Michael C. Munger, Ph.D., pictured, will deliver the Henry George Spring Seminar on Thursday, April 10, at 4 p.m. in the McIlhenny Ballroom of the DeNaples Center.Michael C. Munger, Ph.D., professor of economics, political science and public policy at Duke University, will be the principal speaker at the spring Henry George Seminar at The University of Scranton. Dr. Munger will present “Platforms, Giants and the Neo-Brandeisian Turn in Antitrust,” on Thursday, April 10, in the McIlhenny Ballroom of Scranton’s DeNaples Center. The event begins at 4 p.m. and is free and open to the public.
Named after former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Neo-Brandeisianism is an approach that focuses less on consumer prices and more “on how large corporations can harm competition (particularly for small businesses) and stifle innovation,” according to The Lawverse.
A professor at Duke since 1997, Dr. Munger 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. He has also held teaching positions at Dartmouth College, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Early in his career, Dr. Munger was a staff economist at the Federal Trade Commission.
Much of Dr. Munger’s recent work has been in philosophy, examining the concept of truly voluntary exchange, a concept for which he coined the term “euvoluntary.”
Dr. Munger has written eight books, including “Tomorrow 3.0,” “Choosing in Groups” (coauthored with his son, Kevin) and “The Thing Itself.” He has also published more than 200 articles and papers in professional journals and edited volumes. He has been a member of the editorial boards of several professional journals, including the American Journal of Political Science (1998-2000), Constitutional Political Economy (2001-2003, 2005-present) and Public Choice (1994-1998, 1999-present).
Dr. Munger, who received his Ph.D. in economics at Washington University in St. Louis, is also a regular guest on the popular EconTalk podcast. Two of his episodes – “The Sharing Economy” in 2016 and “Slavery and the Origins of Racism” in 2018 – were the highest reader-rated EconTalk podcasts of their respective years.
The Henry George Lecture Series at Scranton is named in honor of the 19th century American economist and social reformer and is supported financially by a grant from the Progress and Poverty Institute (formerly the Schalkenbach Foundation).
For more information about the Spring Henry George Seminar, call 570-941-4048 or email janice.mecadon@scranton.edu.
