Michael Boskin

Michael Jay Boskin (nacido el 23 de septiembre de 1945) es profesor de economía de la cátedra TM Friedman y miembro principal de la Institución Hoover de la Universidad de Stanford. También es director ejecutivo y presidente de Boskin & Co., una empresa de consultoría económica."Michael Jay Boskin." Marquis Who's Who. Marquis Who's Who, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Fee. Retrieved 15 December 2008. Document Number: K2013013294"Michael J(ay) Boskin." Almanac of Famous People, 9th ed. Thomson Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Updated: 08/17/2007. Fee. Retrieved 15 December 2008. Document Number: K1601033624

Biografía Boskin tiene una licenciatura cum laude, una maestría y un doctorado en economía de la Universidad de California, Berkeley, obtenidos en 1967, 1968 y 1971 respectivamente. Es miembro de Phi Beta Kappa.

Se unió a la Universidad de Stanford en 1970. Es investigador asociado de la Oficina Nacional de Investigación Económica .

Boskin ha sido director de Exxon Mobil desde 1996. También es director de Oracle Corporation, Shinsei Bank y Vodafone Group plc (1999–2008). Es miembro del comité asesor sobre Cuentas Nacionales de Ingresos y Productos del Departamento de Comercio . Boskin ha recibido el premio Adam Smith y otros premios profesionales.

Es colaborador habitual de Project Syndicate desde 2009. También se desempeñó como presidente de la Comisión Boskin, que cambió la forma en que se mide la inflación.

Según Patrick Buchanan, en Death of Manufacturing, Boskin se mostró optimista acerca de la transferencia de la fabricación estadounidense al exterior.

Notoriamente, durante el tiempo que fue asesor económico de la administración de GW Bush, es memorable la vez que dijo: "Patatas fritas, chips semiconductores, ¿cuál es la diferencia? Son todas fichas. Cien dólares de uno o cien dólares del otro siguen siendo cien dólares".

Publicaciones

Too Many Promises: The Uncertain Future of Social Security, 1986. Too Many Promises: The Uncertain Future of Social Security, Dow-Jones-Irwin, 1986. Reagan and the Economy: Successes, Failures, Unfinished Agenda, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1987. The Economic Report of the President, with R. Schmalensee and J. Taylor, United States Government Printing Office, 1990. The Economic Report of the President, with R. Schmalensee and J. Taylor, United States Government Printing Office, 1991. The Economic Report of the President, with D. Bradford and P. Wonnacott, United States Government Printing Office, 1992. The Economic Report of the President, with D. Bradford and P. Wonnacott, United States Government Printing Office, 1993.

Libros editados

The Crisis in Social Security, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1977 (editor). Federal Tax Reform, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1978 (editor). Economics and Human Welfare: Essays in Honor of Tibor Scitovsky, Academic Press, 1979 (editor). The Economics of Taxation, with H. Aaron, Brookings, 1980 (editor). The Economy in the 1980s: A Program for Stability and Growth, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1980 (editor). The Federal Budget: Economics and Politics, with A. Wildavsky, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1982 (editor). Private Saving and Public Debt, with J. Flemming and S. Gorini, Basil Blackwell, 1986 (editor). Modern Developments in Public Finance, Basil Blackwell, 1987 (editor). Economics of Public Debt, with K. Arrow, MacMillan, 1988 (editor). Frontiers of Tax Reform, Hoover Institution Press, 1996 (editor).

Artículos periodísticos

"The negative income tax and the Supply of Work Effort," National Tax Journal, December 1967, (undergraduate senior honors thesis). "The Effects of Taxes on the Supply of Labor: With Special Reference to Income Maintenance Programs," National Tax Association Papers and Proceedings, 1971. "Unions and Relative Real Wages," American Economic Review, June 1972. "Local Government Tax and Product Competition and the Optimal Provision of Public Goods," Journal of Political Economy, January 1973. "Economics of the Labor Supply," in G. Cain and H. Watts, eds., Labor Supply and Income Maintenance, Rand McNally, 1973. "Theoretical Models of Local Government Finance," Proceedings of the 26th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, 1973. "A Conditional Logic Model of Occupational Choice," Journal of Political Economy, March 1974. "The Effects of Government Expenditures and Taxes on Female Labor," American Economic Review, May 1974. "Regression Analysis when the Dependent Variable is Truncated Lognormal: with an Application to the Determinants of the Duration of Welfare Dependency," (with T. Amemiya), International Economic Review, June 1974. "Efficiency Aspects of the Differential Tax Treatment of Market and Household Economic Activity," Journal of Public Economics, February 1975. "Lessons from the New Jersey-Pennsylvania Income Maintenance Experiment," in M. Timpane and A. Rivlin, eds., Evaluating the New Jersey-Pennsylvania Income Maintenance Experiment, 1975. "A Markov Model of Turnover in Aid to Families with Dependent Children," (with F. Nold), Journal of Human Resources, Autumn 1975. "Notes on the Tax Treatment of Human Capital," U.S. Department of the Treasury, Proceedings of the Treasury Conference on Tax Policy, 1975. "Estate Taxation and Charitable Bequests," Journal of Public Economics, January 1976. "Recent Econometric Research in Public Finance," American Economic Review, May 1976. "The Economic Common Sense of the Debate over Controlling Nuclear Power Development," in W. Reynolds, ed., The California Nuclear Initiative, Stanford University Press, 1976; also in Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, California "Energy: The Economic Factors", 1976. "Social Security and Retirement Decisions," Economic Inquiry, January 1977. "An Economist's Perspective on Estate Taxation," in The Future of Wealth Transmission, American Assembly, 1977. "Effects of the Charitable Deduction on Contributions by Low and Middle Income Households: Evidence from the National Survey of Philanthropy," (with M. Feldstein), Review of Economics and Statistics, August 1977. "Taxation and Aggregate Factor Supply: Preliminary Estimates," (with L. Lau), U.S. Treasury Compendium of Tax Research, 1978. "Taxation and Capital Formation: Missing Elements in the President's Tax Program," (with J. Green), in R. Penner, Ed., Tax Policies in the 1979 Budget, AEI, 1978. "Taxation, Saving and the Rate of Interest," Journal of Political Economy, April 1978. "Optimal Tax Theory, Econometric Evidence and Tax Policy," in R. Stone, ed., Econometric Contributions to Public Policy, MacMillan for the International Economic Associations, 1978. "Optimal Redistributive Taxation when Individual Welfare Depends upon Relative Income," (with E. Sheshinski), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1978. "The Effect of Social Security on Early Retirement," (with M. Hurd), Journal of Public Economics, August 1978. "The Long-Run Incidence of Government Policies in Open Growing Economies," (with P. Deville), in M. Boskin, ed., Economics and Human Welfare: Essays in Honor of Tibor Scitovsky, Academic Press, 1979. "Economic Factors Behind the Tax Revolt, National Tax Journal, October 1979. "Interrelationships Among the Choice of Tax Base, Tax Rates and the Unit and Time Period of Account in the Design of an Optimal Tax System," in H. Aaron and M. Boskin, eds., The Economics of Taxation, Brookings, 1980. "Social Security and Private Saving: Analytical Issues, Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications," (with M. Robinson), U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, Special Study on Economic Change, 1980. "The Impact of Inflation on U.S. Productivity and International Competitiveness," (with M. Gertler and C. Taylor), National Planning Association, 1980. "Social Security: The Challenge Before Us," in P. Duignan and A. Rabushka, eds., The United States in the 1980s, Hoover Institution, 1980. "Growth Policy for the Eighties," U.S. Department of Commerce, Proceedings of the Workshop on Supply-Side Economics, 1980. "Issues in the Taxation of Capital Income," (with J. Shoven), American Economic Review, May 1981. "Some Issues in Supply-Side Economics," in K. Brunner and A. Meltzer, eds., Supply Shocks, Incentives and National Wealth, Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 1981. "Taxation, Innovation and Economic Growth," in Technology in Society, Vol. 3, 1981. "Federal Government Deficits: Myths and Realities," American Economic Review, May 1982. "Modeling Alternative Solutions to the Long-Run Social Security Funding Problem," (with M. Avrin and Ken Cone), in M. Feldstein, ed., Behavioral Simulations of Tax Policy, University of Chicago Press, 1983. "Optimal Tax Treatment of the Family," (with E. Sheshinski), Journal of Public Economics, April 1983. "Effects of Budgetary Constraints and Budgetary Cuts," Proceedings: International Institute of Public Finance, Budapest, Hungary, 1983. "A Longer Term Perspective on Macroeconomics and Distribution: Time, Expectations, and Incentives," in G. Feiwel, ed., Issues in Contemporary Economics and Distribution, The MacMillan Press, 1984. "Concepts and Measures of Earnings Replacement during Retirement," (with J. Shoven), NBER Conference Volume, J. Shoven and D. Wise, eds., Issues in Pension Economics, University of Chicago Press, 1987. "The Effect of Social Security on Retirement in the Early 1970's (with M. Hurd), Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 1984. "Poverty Among the Elderly: Where Are the Holes in the Safety Net?" (with J. Shoven), paper presented at the NBER Conference on Pensions and the U.S. Economy, Baltimore, MD, March 21–22, 1985, in Z. Bodie, J Shoven, and D. Wise, eds., Pensions in the U.S. Economy, University of Chicago Press, 1988. "Macroeconomics, Technology and Economic Policy," in R. Landau and N. Rosenberg, eds., Technology and Economy Policy, National Academy Press, 1985. "Changes in the Age Distribution of Income in The United States, 1964–84," (with L. Kotlikoff and M. Knetter), NBER Working Paper, #1766, 1985. "Economic Aspects of the Taxation of Decontrolled Natural Gas," (with M. Robinson), National Tax Journal, June 1985. "Public Debt and U.S. Saving: A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis," (with L. Kotlikoff), in Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series, No. 23, Summer 1985. "Deficits, Public Debt, Interest Rates & Private Saving: Perspectives and Reflections on Recent Analysis and U.S. Experience," in M. Boskin, J. Flemming and S. Gorini, eds., Private Saving and Public Debt, Basil Blackwell, 1986. "Indexing Social Security Benefits: A Separate Price Index for the Elderly?" (with M. Hurd), Public Finance Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 4, October 1985. "Energy Taxes and Optimal Tax Theory," (with M. Robinson), The Energy Journal, September 1985. "New Estimates of the Value of Federal Mineral Rights and Land," (with M. Robinson, et al.), American Economic Review, December 1985. "Theoretical and Empirical Issues in the Measurement, Evaluation and Interpretation of Post-War U.S. Saving," in G. Adams and S. Wachter, eds., Saving and Capital Formation: The Policy Options, Lexington Books/D.C. Health, 1986. "Saving and Economic Growth in the United States: Policy Issues and Options," U.S. Congress, A Symposium on the 40th Anniversary of the Joint Economic Committee, January 16–17, 1986. "New Estimates of the Effects of Taxes on the International Location of Investment," (with W. Gale), in M. Feldstein, ed., The Effects of Taxation on Capital Formation, University of Chicago Press, 1987. "Social Security: A Financial Appraisal within and Across Generations," (with J. Shoven, L. Kotlikoff and D. Puffert), National Tax Journal, March 1987.