Kevin M. Murphy

For other people named Kevin Murphy, see Kevin Murphy (disambiguation).

Kevin M. Murphy
Born	1958 (age 66–67)
Nationality	American
Academic background
Education	University of California, Los Angeles (BA) University of Chicago (PhD)
Doctoral advisor	Sherwin Rosen
Influences	Armen Alchian Gary Becker
Academic work
Discipline	Social economics
School or tradition	Chicago School of Economics
Institutions	University of Chicago
Doctoral students	Luis Garicano
Awards	John Bates Clark Medal (1997) MacArthur Fellows Program (2005) John von Neumann Award (2008)
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Kevin Miles Murphy (born 1958) is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Life and career

Murphy has a B.A. (economics, Phi Beta Kappa), from the University of California, Los Angeles, 1981; and PhD, University of Chicago, 1986 (thesis: Specialization and Human Capital).

In 1997 Murphy was awarded the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association, given once every two years to the most outstanding American economist under the age of forty, and widely considered to be the second most prestigious prize in economics (after the Nobel Prize in Economics). Murphy was cited for his study of the causes of growing income inequality between white-collar and blue-collar workers in the United States and his research linking the growth in income inequality to growth in the demand for skilled labor. His other research has covered such topics as economic growth, income inequality, valuing medical research, rational addiction, and unemployment.

Murphy has authored over 50 published articles on a variety of topics including a cost–benefit analysis of the war in Iraq.

On September 20, 2005, he was named as one of the 2005 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the "genius grant."

On November 13, 2023, Murphy, while serving as an expert witness for Google during a trial, disclosed that Apple gets 36% of the revenue Google generates from being the default browser on the Safari browser.

Major works

• Measuring the Gains from Medical Research: An Economic Approach (edited volume with Robert H. Topel) University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment (with Gary S. Becker). Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press (The Belknap Press), 2000.

External links

• University of Chicago press release announcing John Bates Clark Medal
• Selected bibliography of articles by Kevin M. Murphy
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• MacArthur Fellowship biography page
• Profile in The University of Chicago Magazine, Nov 2006