Kevin Murphy

Professor Kevin Murphy of the University of Chicago is one of the leading academic economists in the United States.  He is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, and the Graduate School of Business, at The University of Chicago.

Professor Murphy is the recipient of numerous other awards and fellowships, including a Sloan Foundation Fellowship and an Earhart Foundation Fellowship. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Professor Murphy received a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1981, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986. He has been a member of the Chicago faculty since 1983.

While Professor Murphy was on Cornell's campus for his public lecture, he visited Professor Todd Knoop's Macroeconomics Seminar and the Berry Center Reading Group.  Says Jamie Adams '08, "Meeting with Kevin Murphy was great.  It was extraordinary to have someone of his magnitude sit down and talk with us about his own work.  As an Economics major, I spend a lot of time looking at economic theories and learning about the people who create them.  It was great to have the opportunity to meet the person we have learned about in class and have him explain his theories to us in person."