Michael Boskin Tully Friedman Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Curriculum Vitae available Online
Bio
BIO Michael J. Boskin is Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. He served as Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 1989 to 1993. The independent Council for Excellence in Government rated Dr. Boskin’s CEA one of the five most respected agencies (out of one hundred) in the federal government. He chaired the highly influential blue-ribbon Commission on the Consumer Price Index, whose report has transformed the way government statistical agencies around the world measure inflation, GDP and productivity.
Advisor to governments and businesses globally, Dr. Boskin also serves on several corporate and philanthropic boards of directors. He is frequently sought as a public speaker on the economic outlook and evolving trends significant to business, national and international economic policy and the intersection of economics and geopolitics.
Dr. Boskin received his B.A. with highest honors and the Chancellor’s Award as outstanding undergraduate in 1967 from the University of California at Berkeley, where he also received his M.A. in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1971, all in economics. In addition to Stanford and the University of California, he has taught at Harvard and Yale. He is the author of more than one hundred books and articles. He is internationally recognized for his research on world economic growth, tax and budget theory and policy, Social Security, U.S. saving and consumption patterns, and the implications of changing technology and demography on capital, labor, and product markets.
Dr. Boskin has received numerous professional awards and citations, including Stanford’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988, the National Association of Business
Economists’ Abramson Award for outstanding research and their Distinguished Fellow Award, the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic in 1991 for his contributions to global economic understanding, and the 1998 Adam Smith Prize for outstanding contributions to economics.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Professor, Economics • Hoover Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution • Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS • Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, (1993-1993) 1 OF 8
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HONORS AND AWARDS • Department Citation & Chancellor's Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis, University of California (1967) 1 OF 9
BOARDS, ADVISORY COMMITTEES, PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • Member, Governor's Council of Economic Advisors (2003 - 2010) • Member, Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau pf Economic Analysis (2000 - 2008) 1 OF 26
PROGRAM AFFILIATIONS • Public Policy
PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley , Economics (1971) 1 OF 3 Teaching
COURSES 2021-22 • Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: ECON 23N (Spr) • Introduction to Financial Decision-Making: ECON 43 (Spr)
2020-21 • Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: ECON 23N (Spr)
2019-20 • Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy: ECON 23N (Spr)
2018-19 • Public Economics and Environmental Economics Seminar: ECON 341 (Aut, Win, Spr) 1 OF 4
STANFORD ADVISEES Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Adam Zhang
Publications
PUBLICATIONS • U.S. China Economic Relations in the Next Ten Years: Towards Deeper Engagements and Mutual Benefit edited by Boskin, M. J., Lau, L. J., Spence, M. China-United States Exchange Foundation.2013
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