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BOSKIN, Michael was born on September 23, 1945 in New York, United States. Son of Irving Boskin and Jean (nee Kimmel) Boskin.
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economist educator and politician
BOSKIN, Michael was born on September 23, 1945 in New York, United States. Son of Irving Boskin and Jean (nee Kimmel) Boskin.
AB with highest honors, University California, Berkeley, 1967. Master of Arts in Economics, University California, Berkeley, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, University California, Berkeley, 1971.
Assistant professor economics Stanford University, 1970-1975, associate professor, 1976-1978, professor, 1978—1986, director Center for Economic Policy Research, 1981—1988, Wohlford professor economics, 1987-1989, Tully M. Friedman professor economics, since 1993. Chairman Council Economic Advisors Executive Office of the President, Washington, 1989-1993. President, Chief Executive Officer Boskin & Company, Menlo Park, California, since 1993.
Visiting professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977-1978. Distinguished faculty fellow Yale University, 1993, scholar American Enterprise Institute, since 1993. Research associate National Bureau Economic Research, since 1976.
Senior fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University, since 1993. Board directors Oracle Corporation, since 1994, Exxon Mobil Corporation, since 1996, Airtouch Communications, Inc., 1996-1999, Vodafone Group PLC, 1999-2008. Chairman Congressional Advisory Commission on the Consumer Price Index, 1995-1997.
Advisor, consultant numerous government agencies, private businesses.
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Author: Too Many Promises: The Uncertain Future of Social Security, 1986, Reagan and the Economy: Successes, Failures Unfinished Agenda, 1987, Frontiers of Tax Reform, 1996, Capital Technology and Growth, 1996, Toward a More accurate Measure of the Cost of Living, 1996. Contributor articles to professional journals, popular media.
My research has focussed on analytical and empirical studies of the supply of factors for production and the implication of these results for public policy. My early work studied the implications of differential labour supply responses of primary and secondary earners in the family and their implications for tax policy. More recently, I have analysed retirement decisions and their interaction with social security.
Also, I have focussed my attention on the determinants of saving behaviour in the United States, with special emphasis on the potential effects of fiscal policy. Drawing out these implications for factor supply has been the source of a series of articles on various topics in optimal taxation, or it might be termed sensible supply-side economics. My recent econometric work has attempted to combine disaggregated information on households with national income accounts data to build an econometric/demographic model for explaining postwar trends in wealth, saving, and their determinants in the United States.
My explorations in optimal
tax theory and its application to various policy problems has led me to reexamine the conceptual and accounting foundations of federal government budgeting in the United States. Among my current work is an attempt to improve concepts and measurements within the federal budget in order to enable proper cost-benefit analysis to be carried out. I am also investigating the tail-end of the lifecycle, long-run financial problems in social insurance programmes, and alternative methods of comparing economic well-being at different points in the lifecycle.
Throughout my work I have attempted to combine economic analysis and careful econometric studies with substantive policy issues.
Board Directors, EquitecSiebel Mutual Fund Group, Oakland, California. American Council on Capital Formation Board Directors 1986. National Chamber Foundation Board Directors 1987.
Tennis, skiing, reading, theater, golf.
Married Chris Dornin, October 20, 1981.