Michael Boskin

Michael Jay Boskin ( born September 23, 1945 in New York City ) is an American economist, university teachers, business managers and entrepreneurs, who was also Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Life

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

Subsequently, he was a lecturer in 1971 initially as well as after 1978 Professor of Economics at Stanford University and has held this teaching ever since from. In 1979, he was also a research scientist (Research Fellow ), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In addition to his teaching, he was also working for a number of organizations and institutions in economics and was among other things a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research ( NBER ), Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute ( AEI). In addition, he was a member of the American Economic Association, the National Association for Business Economics ( NABE ) and the National Tax Association and also received a grant from the Ford Foundation.

He was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1989 and was until 1993 one of the closest economic adviser to President George HW Bush.

Boskin, who was awarded the Abramson Award of the HUB in 1991, took over after his retirement from government service functions increasingly in the private sector and is a member of the board of directors of Oracle and since 1996 from ExxonMobil since 1994. He was also a member of the Boards of Directors of Vodafone, Shinsei Bank, and First Health Group Corporation. In addition, he was between 1994 and 2003 also on the Advisory Board of the Congressional Budget Office. However, have recently come under his proposals for tax policy in the criticism.

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

Publications

Boskin also published numerous articles in professional journals and reference books where he recently criticized in particular as a member of the Republican Party, the economic and financial policies of President Barack Obama. Among his most important 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, November 17, 2009
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