Iain Murray is Vice President for Strategy and a Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he specializes in free-market approaches to finance, labor, trade, and environmental policy. A native of the United Kingdom, he previously worked for the British government and has written extensively on economic liberty, climate policy, and the history of ideas. He is the author of several books, including The Really Inconvenient Truths, Stealing You Blind, and The Socialist Temptation.
The American and British constitutions share a common heritage but diverge sharply in method: one protects liberty through constitutional design, the other through constitutional evolution
Iain MurrayJuly 14, 2026