Kevin Miles Murphy (born 1958) is theGeorge J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at theUniversity of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Senior Fellow at theHoover Institution.^[1]

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

In 1997 Murphy was awarded the prestigiousJohn Bates Clark Medal by theAmerican 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 theNobel Prize in Economics). Murphy was cited for his study of the causes of growing income inequality between white-collar andblue-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.^[2]

On September 20, 2005, he was named as one of the 2005 recipients of theMacArthur 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.^[3]

• 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.

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

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