Michael J. Murray

Biography

I am a Professor of Economics at Bemidji State University in the Center for Sustainability Studies. My teaching and research is in the areas of heterodox theories of production, traverse analysis, employment and unemployment, Sustainability, and spatial analysis and modeling.

Education

Ph.D. University of Missouri Kansas City Economics and Statistics

M.S. The Johns Hopkins University Geographical Information Systems

M.S. University of Missouri Kansas City Economics

B.S. University of Wisconsin La Crosse Economics

Employment and Research Positions

Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity Research Scholar 2015-present

Bemidji State University, Professor of Economics, Center for Sustainability Studies, employed since 2011, Full Professor since 2020

Central College, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Accounting and Management, 2009-2011

University of Missouri Kansas City, Graduate Teaching Assistant 2005-2009

Center for Full Employment and Price Stability
Research Assistant 2005-2009

My Research

Employment, Unemployment, and Traverse Analysis

Traverse Analysis is the analysis of the movement of an economy from one state to another following technological advancement and structural change to production.

Structural change can occur because of changes to the size or composition of the labor force, labor productivity, technological advancement, and public policy.

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My Teaching

Teaching Philosophy

My teaching and research and interconnected and mutually reinforcing. I strive to go beyond the traditional neoclassical paradigm and provide my students a holistic, interdisciplinary and pluralistic education. My economic teaching is informed by the traditions of Classical Political Economy and Marx, and the contemporary schools such as Post Keynesian, Institutionalist, and Heterodox approaches.
At Bemidji State University I teach courses in Macroeconomics, Labor, Public Economics, Quantitative Methods and Spatial Analysis

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American Review of Political Economy

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I am the editor for the American Review of Political Economy, an open access peer reviewed journal dedicated to furthering original research in Heterodox Economics.

Our focus is on publishing original research from all branches of heterodoxy including Ecological Economics, Feminist Economics, Black Political Economy, Post Keynesian, Institutionalist, Marxian, Sraffian, Austrian, Classical Political Economy, and Economic Geography.

The American Review of Political Economy is an ICAPE member journal. We publish the annual ICAPE Conference Papers and Proceedings.