Michael Boskin
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Michael Jay Boskin is the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He also is Chief Executive Officer and President of Boskin & Co., an economic consulting company.
Boskin holds bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees in economics from UC Berkeley, earned in 1967, 1968, and 1971 respectively. He joined Stanford University in 1970. He is a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.
Boskin has been a director of Exxon Mobil since 1996. He is also a director of Oracle Corporation, Shinsei Bank, and Vodafone Group plc. He served as Chairman, Congressional Advisory Commission on the Consumer Price Index, ; and on the Council of Economic Advisors, . He serves on the Commerce Department's Advisory Committee on the National Income and Product Accounts. Boskin is the recipient of numerous professional awards.
According to Patrick Buchanan, in Death of American Manufacturing, Boskin was sanguine about the transfer of U.S. manufacturing overseas. While serving on the Council of Economic Advisors to President H.W. Bush, he is quoted as saying "It does not matter if the U.S. makes computer chips or potato chips".
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