# Robert P. Murphy

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/people/robert-p-murphy>

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Robert P. Murphy is a libertarian theorist and Austrian-school economist. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University. Murphy is Research Fellow at the Independent Institute, Senior Fellow, Business and Economic Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, and Senior Economist at the Insitute for Energy Research. He is the author of _Choice: Cooperation, Enterprise, and Human Action_ (Independent Insitute, 2015).