Professor Chris Berg
Details
College: School of Economics Finance & Marketing
Department: Economics Finance & Marketing
Campus: City Campus Australia
chris.berg@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-0856-7891
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Chris Berg is a Professor of Economics at RMIT University. Professor Berg is a leading global authority on regulation, technological change, and civil liberties. He is the author of thirteen books, including Artificial Intelligence: A Classical Liberal Approach (2026) The New Technologies of Freedom (2020), Understanding the Blockchain Economy: An Introduction to Institutional Cryptoeconomics (2019) and The Classical Liberal Case for Privacy in a World of Surveillance and Technological Change (2018). His personal website is chrisberg.org
Supervisor projects
- A Property Rights Approach to Understanding Digital Assets.
- 14 Jan 2026
- Blockchain governance: taking stock and moving forward
- 9 Aug 2023
- The utilisation of blockchain for the development of carbon market derivatives
- 1 Dec 2022
- Institutional Evolution in Blockchain Governance
- 19 Aug 2022
- The Reputational Economics of Open Inputs Science
- 29 Nov 2020
- Decentralised Technologies: ‘Self-Infrastructuring’ Resilience
- 4 May 2020
- Understanding the Economic Complexities of the Higher Education Sector: A Novel Application of Multi-Sided Theory
- 13 Sep 2019
- Institutional Conditions and Entrepreneurial Token Design and Exit Routes in Crypto-Economy
- 20 Sep 2018
Teaching interests
The economics and history of technology, artificial intelligence, innovation, regulation, business model design, and public policy
Research interests
The economics and history of technology, artificial intelligence, innovation, regulation, business model design, and public policy
