Cameron Harwick: SUNY Brockport

Assistant Professor: (585) 395-5527
charwick@brockport.edu
Office: Hartwell Hall 113 C
Website

What kinds of things people use as money, and how that changes over the
business cycle
Whether cryptocurrencies can be viable
How norms and institutions evolve
How computational methods can be used to model economies

Recent Publications
- “Inside and Outside Perspectives on Institutions: An Economic Theory of the Noble Lie” (2021) — Argues that social cooperation requires a divergence between subjective preferences and objective payoffs, and discusses implications for governance.
- “What’s Holding Back Blockchain Finance? On the Possibility of Decentralized Autonomous Finance” (2021, with James Caton) — Lays out the game theory of why finance is a harder problem than monetary exchange, argues that pure algorithmic governance is impossible, and discusses technologies that can interface between algorithmic and traditional governance structures.
- “Bubbles and Broad Monetary Aggregates: Toward a Consensus Approach to Business Cycles” (2019) — Shows how proper measurement of the money supply can resolve long-standing disagreements in business cycle macroeconomics.