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.
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.
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 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.