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Cameron Harwick , Ph.D

Assistant Professor

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

Education

• BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• PhD, George Mason University

Research Interests

• 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.