Michael Boskin

Michael Boskin

Michael Jay Boskin (born September 23, 1945 in New York City ) is an American economist , university professor , business manager and entrepreneur , who was also chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers .

Life

After attending school, Boskin studied economics at the University of California at Berkeley , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA Economics) in 1967 and a Master of Arts (MA Economics) in 1968 , before obtaining a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D. Economics ) there in 1971 ) received. During this time he also became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic society .

He then became a lecturer in 1971 and then professor of economics at Stanford University in 1978 and has been teaching since then. In 1979, he was also a research scientist ( Research Fellow ) of the Andrew W. Mellon - Foundation .

In addition to his teaching activities, he has also worked for numerous economic organizations and institutions and has been a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He was also an employee of the American Economic Association , the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and the National Tax Association, and was also a recipient of a Ford Foundation grant .

In 1989 he became chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and was thus one of the closest economic policy advisers to President George HW Bush until 1993 .

Boskin, who was awarded the 1991 Abramson Prize by NABE, has assumed increasing roles in the private sector after retiring from government service and has served on the Oracle Board of Directors since 1994 and ExxonMobil since 1996 . He was also a member of the Boards of Directors of Vodafone , Shinsei Bank and First Health Group Corporation. He was also a member of the Advisory Board of the Congressional Budget Office between 1994 and 2003 . Recently, however, his proposals for tax policy have come under fire.

In 1998 he was also awarded the Adam Smith Prize , a prize awarded by NABE since 1982 for outstanding achievements and ideas in the field of economics. Last was Boskin who is also president and chief executive officer (CEO) and founder of the company Boskin & Company, between 2005 and 2006 president of the International Atlantic Economic Society.

Publications

Boskin has also published numerous articles in specialist journals and specialist books, most recently as a member of the Republican Party in particular criticizing President Barack Obama's economic and financial policy . His major publications include:

• Too Many Promises: The Uncertain Future of Social Security (1986)
• Reagan and the Economy: Successes, Failures, Unfinished Agenda (1987)
• Obama's Radicalism Is Killing the Dow. A financial crisis is the worst time to change the foundations of American capitalism . In: The Wall Street Journal , March 6, 2009
• An alternative stimulus plan. A payroll tax cut would add three to four million jobs at a fraction of the cost of the stimulus bill . In: The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 17, 2009

Web links

• Michael Boskin in the nndb (English)
• Stanford University's private homepage
• Biography (leighbureau.com)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Homepage of the Hoover Institution
2. ↑ BUSINESS WEEK: So I Was Off by a Few Trillion. Michael Boskin's miscalculation on tax revenues muddles the economic debate (August 11, 2003)
3. ↑ The Adam Smith Award (nabe.com) ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Publications (project-syndicate.org) ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, March 6, 2009
6. ↑ THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 17, 2009