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Every book Mike Munger recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Mike Munger has recommended or discussed 6 books on podcasts, as of September 28, 2026.
- Mike Munger has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of September 28, 2026.
- Those books came up in 4 episodes, as of September 28, 2026.
- The 3 books Mike Munger has mentioned in the most episodes, as of September 28, 2026: 1984, Philosophy of Right and The Fatal Conceit.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Mike Munger aired on September 28, 2026.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Mike Munger appears on, in one place, not just one.
Mike Munger’s most mentioned books
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Philosophy of Right by Georg H. W. Hegel
- The Fatal Conceit by F. A. Hayek
- The Federalist papers by Alexander Hamilton
- The Not So Wild, Wild West by Terry Lee Anderson
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Mike Munger is an academic and commentator. He has discussed multiple works across economics and political philosophy on podcasts. He quoted F.A. Hayek's The Fatal Conceit to explain how individuals must constantly adjust their lives and thoughts to live simultaneously within different orders according to different rules. Munger brought up Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Philosophy of Right to explain the philosophical origins of romanticism and views on the state, and referenced Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations to illustrate the division of labor using the famous pin factory example and the theorem that the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market. He also mentioned George Orwell's 1984 while discussing societal surveillance, quoted James Madison from the Federalist Papers on government structure and ambition counteracting ambition, and referenced Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill's The Not So Wild, Wild West to show how people in the old West organized property rights without a centralized state.
Books Mike Munger recommended or discussed
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1984
Discussed“he used the metaphor of the prison panopticon as a way to illustrate the sort of society that and the the actually a number of authors in the the book 1984 is clearly that sort of constant surveillance of everyone”
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Philosophy of Right
Discussed“So in 1821, Friedrich Hegel published a book, The Philosophy of Right.”
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The Fatal Conceit
Discussed“So now going back to, and this is from the fatal conceit, part of our present difficulty is that we must constantly adjust our lives, our thoughts, and our emotions in order to live simultaneously within different kinds of orders, according to different rules.”
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The Federalist papers
Discussed“so the number of them have actually said you know those federalist papers that really interesting”
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The Not So Wild, Wild West
Discussed“in a way there's a book by Carrie Anderson and PJ Hill called the not so wild wild west they talk about the California Gold Fields and the fact that people came up with ways of allocating property rights and adjudicated dispute”
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The Wealth of Nations
Discussed“The pin factory he writes about as one example. You can read about that in the Wealth of Nations and there other places.”
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Books Mike Munger wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Choice and Politics Without Romance (with Mike Munger) | EconTalk | 2026-09-28 | 2 |
| What Is Capitalism? (with Mike Munger) | EconTalk | 2025-07-07 | 2 |
| Michael Munger on Antitrust | EconTalk | 2022-04-25 | 1 |
| Political Science, Trump, and Libertarianism | Mike Munger | POLITICS | Rubin Report | The Rubin Report | 2017-07-21 | 3 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“So your next book which is called tomorrow 3.0 this is sort of partly what it's going to be about”