Cameron K. Murray

Cameron K. Murray is an economist who specializes in environmental economics, regulation, rent-seeking, corruption, and property markets. Twitter: @DrCameronMurray

How Market Competition Really Works

One of the best models of competitive markets in an economy is an evolutionary one.

By Cameron K. Murray One of the best models of competitive markets in an economy is an evolutionary one that embeds the ideas that cooperation and competition operating at different levels. The basic ingredients of […]

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Economics Is a Mess and Needs to be Reformed

Organizing the jumbled schools of economic thought

By Cameron Murray In a previous article (“Reforming Economics: The Challenge”), I made the point that organizing the jumbled schools of economic thought into a coherent pluralist curriculum faces both a social and a technical […]

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How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth

A review of the new book Ultrasociety

By Cameron K. Murray Professor Turchin’s new book Ultrasociety identifies the causal mechanisms hidden in the twists and turns of human civilization by quantifying the rise and fall of empires. The book translates some of […]

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How Biology Explains Back-Scratching Between Wall Street and Government

The revolving door of government and business explained in the lab.

By Cameron K. Murray The systemic financial risk-taking in the lead up to the financial crisis was a product of untouchable insiders taking risks that favoured the connected few. And the many still suffer. In […]

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