{"id":306,"date":"2026-06-23T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/?p=306"},"modified":"2026-07-30T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:30:15","slug":"michael-murray","status":"publish","type":"facstaff","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/facstaff\/michael-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael J. Murray is an Associate Professor at Bemidji State University and Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. He co-edits the <em>American Review of Political Economy<\/em> and the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity book series. Murray&rsquo;s research focuses on public policies targeting full employment, production theory, structural and technological change, and its impacts on employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Degrees<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>B.S. Economics, UW Lacrosse<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M.S. Economics, University Missouri-Kansas City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D. Economics, University Missouri-Kansas City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M.S. Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Johns Hopkins University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Murray teaches classes in Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Financial Economics, Banking, Public Policy, Statistics, and Geographical Information Systems. Murray is active in both teaching and research. He is editor of the <strong><em>American Review of Political Economy<\/em><\/strong>, an interdisciplinary open access scholarly journal of Heterodox Economics and is one of three editors for Palgrave Macmillan&rsquo;s <strong>Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity<\/strong> book series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Murray&rsquo;s research intersects economics, geography, and GIS focusing on regionally targeted public policies toward the pursuit of full employment and ecological sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some more specific examples of projects you could work on with Dr. Murray include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>marrying the Green New Deal with the job guarantee,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>embracing the history of assimilation, termination, and acculturation while improving the social and economic status of tribal communities,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>using spatial analysis to determine the extent of the need to the job guarantee in rural Minnesota,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>how heterodox economics needs to be empirically grounded to address the production and distribution while embracing the circular economy,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&ldquo;Sustainable prosperity&rdquo; a holistic notion encompassing the physical, mental, environmental, financial, educational, and civic wellbeing of all individuals, families, neighborhoods, and regions throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Murray focuses on production, capital accumulation, structural and technological change, and its impacts on society and the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent Work<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>More information about Murray&rsquo;s books, publications, and presentations can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/michael-j-murray.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">michael-j-murray.net<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"bsu_hero":"","bsu_hero_on_children":false,"bsu_hero_height":"600","bsu_hero_video":"","bsu_hero_focal_point":"","bsu_hero_media":"","bsu_hero_display":"random","bsu_hero_slider_interval":5,"bsu_hide_from_navigation":false,"bsu_redirect_enabled":false,"bsu_redirect_url":"","bsu_redirect_target":false,"bsu_require_auth":false,"bsu_require_auth_usertypes":"","_bsu_seo_title":"","_bsu_seo_description":"","_bsu_robots_noindex":false,"_bsu_sitemap_priority":"","_bsu_og_title":"","_bsu_og_description":"","_bsu_og_use_hero":false,"_bsu_og_image":"","photo":882,"websites":"","facstaff-manual":0,"facstaff-created-by-cron":0,"facstaff-cron-created-on":"","facstaff-cron-unpublished-on":"","facstaff-pre":"","facstaff-fname":"Michael","facstaff-lname":"Murray","facstaff-title":"Professor","facstaff-email":"michael.murray@bemidjistate.edu","facstaff-phone":"2187552910","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-306","facstaff","type-facstaff","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/facstaff"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/facstaff\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/directory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}