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Kevin M. Murphy is known for his research on the causes of growing income inequality between white-collar and blue-collar workers in the United States, which he linked to rising demand for skilled labor. He also conducted influential work on rational addiction, economic growth, and the value of medical research.
Kevin M. Murphy was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 1997 by the American Economic Association. The medal is given once every two years to the most outstanding American economist under forty and is widely considered the second most prestigious prize in economics after the Nobel.
On the 13th of November 2023, Murphy disclosed while serving as an expert witness for Google that Apple receives 36% of the revenue Google generates from being the default search engine on the Safari browser.
Kevin M. Murphy was named a MacArthur Fellowship recipient on the 20th of September 2005. The award, commonly called the "genius grant," was part of the 2005 class of fellows.
Kevin M. Murphy holds the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics chair at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Murphy co-authored Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment with Gary S. Becker, published by Harvard University Press in 2000. He also co-edited Measuring the Gains from Medical Research: An Economic Approach with Robert H. Topel, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003.