Mr. Murray is Vice President for Strategy and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Murray also directs the Center for Economic Freedom. He is the author of the best-selling books, “The Really Inconvenient Truths” and “Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You.” He has written extensively on free markets and the environment, labor policy, finance, the EU, and trade. He tweets at @ismurray and is a Contributing Editor at Instapundit.com.
Before coming to CEI, Iain was Director of Research at the Statistical Assessment Service. A former civil servant in the United Kingdom, Iain immigrated to the U.S. in 1997 and remains a British citizen. He holds an Master of Business Administration from the University of London and an Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. He is married with two children and lives in Northern Virginia.
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News
Record GDP Numbers: Good News and Next Steps
Today’s GDP numbers are good news — but what policies will help people who still suffering and aid a fuller recovery? Ryan Young, CEI Senior Fellow:…
House Report on Tech and Antitrust Ignores the Consumer Harm Standard
Today the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law released a report advocating changing antitrust laws and using them to break up…
DOJ-Recommended Changes to Section 230 Would Lead to More Moderation of Conservative Speech
The Department of Justice today asked Congress to make changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a provision that protects any website from…
Blog
Forty Years of Freedom: Rail Deregulation Worked
- By: Iain Murray
Forty years ago today, President Carter signed the Staggers Act, which deregulated the American freight rail industry. As CEI has long maintained, this…
Court-Packing Isn’t the Left’s Only Threat to the Supreme Court
- By: Iain Murray
The Left’s threat to the pack the Court by expanding the number of justices seems to be unpopular. But they have proposed other policies that…
All Levels of Government Need a Top-to-Bottom Review of Transportation Policy
- By: Iain Murray
Evidence is mounting that mass transit played a major role in spreading COVID-19. According to analytics firm TrendMacro, the only factor “that seems to make…
Op-Eds/Articles
The Oklahoman
Point of View: America’s Political Realignment is Still Underway
- By: Iain Murray
It has become commonplace to say that America is undergoing a political realignment, as working class and rural people become more Republican and suburban and…
National Review
Why Are We Even Contemplating Canceling Aristotle?
- By: Iain Murray
There is a good piece hidden in philosopher Agnes Callard’s recent article for the New York Times about cancel culture. Unfortunately, that piece is lost in the framing device.
National Review
Socialists on the March
- By: Iain Murray
Last week, several self-proclaimed Democratic Socialists defeated long-serving Democratic incumbents in New York State primaries. One of the insurgents, Zohran Mamdani, tweeted out the words, “Socialism won.” His pinned tweet on…
Studies
Antitrust FAQ
1. What is antitrust? Today’s body of antitrust laws is the culmination of over one hundred years of unclear objectives, contradictory interpretations, and controversial court decisions.
How Antitrust Regulation Hinders Innovation and Competition
- By: Iain Murray
Few economic concepts elicit such strong reactions as that of monopoly, and the policy intended to address it—antitrust regulations (called competition policy in the European…
Platform Economy Bibliography
View Full Document as PDF It is hardly news that the growth of the online economy has upended a wide array of…
Citations
EP NewsWire
COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: Record GDP Numbers: Good News and Next Steps
EP NewsWire cites CEI senior fellows Iain Murray and Ryan Young on economy and regulations. Ryan Young, CEI Senior Fellow: “Most of the talk…
Acton Line
AUDIO: The Socialist Temptation with Iain Murray
- By: Iain Murray
Acton Line Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray joins the Acton Line podcast to discuss The Socialist Temptation: In his new book, The Socialist Temptation, author Iain…
New Books Network
AUDIO: Iain Murray Discusses The Socialist Temptation on Regnery Gateway, 2020
- By: Iain Murray
New Books Network Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray joins New Books Network podcast New Books in Politics and Polemics to discuss The Socialist Temptation.