Michael Boskin
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Michael Boskin

American economist (born 1945)

Michael Jay Boskin (born September 23, 1945) is the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He also is chief executive officer and president of Boskin & Co., an economic consulting company, and serves on the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on the National Income and Product Accounts.2

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Born Sep 23, 1945.1

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Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of California, Berkeley3

Boskin holds B.A. with highest honors, M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, earned in 1967, 1968, and 1971 respectively. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

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Career

Occupation: economist, university teacher, writer, businessperson, academic.5 7

He joined Stanford University in 1970. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Boskin has been a director of ExxonMobil since 1996.

He has been a regular contributor to Project Syndicate since 2009. He also served as the chair of the Boskin Commission, which changed the way inflation was measured.

He is a director of Oracle Corporation. He currently serves on the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on the National Income and Product Accounts.

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Personal life

  • BornSep 23, 1945, New York City8
  • CitizenshipUnited States9

Awards

  • 1998Adam Smith Award10